Dear diary, on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:22:45PM CET, I got a letter,
where Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org> told me, that...
> Remember, the whole point of HOSTCC is to support a build environment
> different from the compile target - arbitrarily different, even.
I'm a bit lost here - the kernel uses tons of gcc extensions - how is another
compiler supposed to understand them? And if it is specifically extended to
understand them, isn't it likely that it'll understand the -shared switch in
gcc-like way as well?
Or better, what other compiler is known to build a kernel than gcc? At least
anything that doesn't define __GNUC__ should IMHO fail inside of init/main.c.
And how likely is situation when someone want to configure a kernel with
non-gcc compiler and actually build it with gcc?
I thought that the point of HOSTCC is to allow to use a non-standart version
of gcc for kernel build.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
.
This host is a black hole at HTTP wavelengths. GETs go in, and nothing
comes out, not even Hawking radiation.
-- Graaagh the Mighty on rec.games.roguelike.angband
.
Public PGP key && geekcode && homepage: http://pasky.ji.cz/~pasky/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Nov 07 2002 - 22:00:48 EST