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Re: [avr-chat] --target vs. --host when building AVR toolchain?
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Rolf Magnus |
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Re: [avr-chat] --target vs. --host when building AVR toolchain? |
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Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:30:04 +0200 |
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On Sunday 30 April 2006 09:30, Rick Mann wrote:
> Which is the preferred thing to use?
That depends on what you want to do. Use --host to specify which architecture
the compiler is supposed to run under and --target to specify the
architecture that it should genate code for.
> Does it make sense to use both?
It might, e.g. if you want to build a gcc under linux that should later be
executed under cygwin and generate avr code.
> I've been using --target=avr, but when I tried to build libc-1.4.4,
> it complained and suggested I use --host instead. That seemed to work.
A compiler and a library are two different things.