On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 20:48 +0100, Kai Ruemmler wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com> wrote:
> > All I am trying to do is compile an x86_64 kernel on i386 machine. It
> > dos not work:
>
> > $ ARCH=x86_64 make oldconfig
> > <no errors>
>
> > $ ARCH=x86_64 make
>
> [...]
>
> > What gives? Do I need a different compiler to build for x86_64?
>
> Yes.
>
> Cross compiling the kernel works like this:
>
> $ make ARCH=<arch> CROSS_COMPILE=<arch-prefix>
>
> The gcc cross compiler for x86_64 is usually named x86_64-linux-gcc.
>
> In the special case of x86 -> x86_64 a 64 bit enabled gcc is sufficient
> though (if your binutils support 64 bit). In all other cases you need
> a "real" cross compiler.
Can you tell me which Ubuntu/Debian packages to install to make this
work? I did "apt-cache search | grep 64" and did not see any GCC or
binutils packages.
The closest thing I saw was lib64gcc1 which I'm installing now.
Lee
Received on Fri Dec 9 00:15:08 2005
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