Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.8] stubdom: make GMP aware that it's being cross-compiled

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 31.10.16 at 11:14, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 02:57:54AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 29.10.16 at 19:22, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Append --build and --host flags to GMP's configure script so that it
>> > knows it is being compiled for another architecture.
>> 
>> Why --host and --build? Aiui,
>> - host is where the configure runs,
>> - build is where tool chain components being built are supposed to run,
>> - target is where the final binaries are intended to run.
> 
> I think you got them wrong, in particular host and build semantics.
> 
> build is where the build runs, host is where the resulting binary runs,
> target is where the output of the resulting binary runs (assuming the
> binary is compiler).
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.65/html_node/Specifyi 
> ng-Target-Triplets.html
> 
> Since GMP is not a compiler, target is not relevant here.

Oh, indeed, I've been confused. Sorry for the noise.

Jan

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