On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 19:07 +0100, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:

Hi folks,

Anyway, I have a main development system which is P4 based (without EM64T) and a dozen diskless Athlon 64's. I'd like to be able to compile kernel's, etc for the Athlons in x86_64 bit mode. Any idea how to arrange this?

I've recompiled the src.rpm for binutils (added a single line "CARGS=--enable-targets=x86_64-linux" to the specfile) and "as --64" doesn't bork anymore, so I'm assuming I've got that right...

I'm assuming I next have to do something to gcc? Haven't figured this out yet... Anything else needed?

Holiday cheers, MaZe. _______________________________________________

You can build a cross compiler tool chain ... but that is a real PITA.

It is MUCH easier if you can compile on an x86_64 machine ... maybe in a chroot

Not building on an x86_64 machine will cause issues with some SRPMS that look at RPM variables.

It is certainly possible to build a cross compiler tool chain that will compile "C" files .. but harder to get it to work with rpmbuild :)