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author | Armijn Hemel <armijn@gpl-violations.org> | 2005-12-30 14:20:44 +0000 |
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committer | Armijn Hemel <armijn@gpl-violations.org> | 2005-12-30 14:20:44 +0000 |
commit | 2f6385ba23995f02c2c047aa7cd4c3de47143ad3 (patch) | |
tree | ab7407f7d9ca77b3b1949044111edde606b24daa /maintainers/docs | |
parent | b768475a3a9eefd9b86c22f175c4ec964e721af6 (diff) | |
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tell a bit more about the names of the binutils that the buildprocess expects
to find during cross compilation. We need to fix the gcc-wrapper to support cross-compiling. Really, it's not that hard to do, but it needs to be done correctly :) svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=4456
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diff --git a/maintainers/docs/cross.txt b/maintainers/docs/cross.txt index 7fce2385707c..c79c571dee97 100644 --- a/maintainers/docs/cross.txt +++ b/maintainers/docs/cross.txt @@ -165,6 +165,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { } --- +The builder.sh for a cross-compiler. Note that the binutils are prefixed +with the architecture name, so arm-linux-ld instead of ld, etc. This is +necessary because when we cross-compile a lot of programs look for these +tools with these specific names. The standard gcc-wrapper does not take this +into account yet. --- source $stdenv/setup |