On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 jchacon@genuity.net wrote:
> I did exactly this when I converted from a.out -> elf
> 
> It can be painful to manage though as I found the set of tools required
> to build grows quite large.

You bet. I think it would still give a nice cross-compiler framework...
Plus - the reason why I wanted this - if would work if you had old tools 
installed in your syetem. Finding out what you need to update before you
can do a clean 'make build' isn't fun either...


 - Hubert

> 
> James
> 
> >
> >On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> >
> >> >  > It seems the old menuc and msgc files are picked up when doing a DESTDIR
> >> >  > build. Any objections to compile the patch below?
> >> > 
> >> > Yes.  You can't run DESTDIR's menuc(1), because you might be
> >> > cross-compiling.
> >> 
> >> A correct patch would build a special menuc, etc., for a DESTDIR build
> >> out of the current source tree with *HOST* tools.  This would require
> >> menuc to be built twice: one with host tools, one with target tools..
> >
> >Why single out menuc? What we should have, is a toolchain target that
> >builds all the host tools and requisite libraries. If you don't want
> >to sully your main tree, you could set DESTDIR to a tools area and
> >then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH for the real (cross) DESTDIR build.
> >
> >
> >Frederick
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 

-- 
Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>