Re: [Qemu-devel] Cross-compiling QEMU for ARM

[Peter Crosthwaite]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Peter Maydell
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Question for the qemu-devel folks: does anybody have a situation
> where they genuinely need to pass --cpu to configure (ie the
> autodetection is wrong or insufficient)? [configure does mention
> one case, which is when cross-compiling to x86 Darwin and SunOS,
> but the latter at least is busted anyway because later on we
> do things based on SunOS uname results which there is no way
> to override for the cross-compile case.] I'm tempted to suggest
> we should drop --cpu entirely...

We are are using --cpu=i386 to cross build QEMU as a 32-bit binary on
64 bit platforms. Although admittedly that is still failing to build
due to werror issues.

Regards,
Peter

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