cross-compiling a kernel, was: Re: running Speakup on the Mac

[Igor Gueths]

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Hey Greg. Afaik its not possible to have a toolchain that will cross-compile to any target; how did you prehaps find out otherwise?
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:01:46AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> You first either get a pre-compiled tool chain, or you build your own,
> which is not as bad as it sounds, just be sure you have a very fast
> system, and have something else to do while your machine does its
> thing.
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> Now, assuming you wanted to for example go through make config for the
> x86_64 architecture, you'd do:
> 
> make ARCH=x86_64 config
> 
> Doing make modules, and make modules_install would go the same way. As
> for building the actual kernel, that seems to differ from target to
> target. For some targets, you do make linux, for others you do make,
> and probably for some you do something else.
> 
> Someone once told me that the tool chain that comes with modern
> gnu/linux distributions is ready to cross-compile for all other
> supported targets, but I don't know if that's true or not. Hth.
> 
> Greg
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> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:19:34AM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote:
> > some have also made efforts to make emacspeak run on the mac.  Consolte 
> > the emacspeak list to see if they were successful.  My tangental question 
> > to this thread is how to you roll your own kernels for such platforms as 
> > the mac or 64-bit systems?  I didn't see this explained in the kernel 
> > howto and I didn't se an explanation on how to cross-compile a kernel.
> > 
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