Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:24:54 +0100 | From | Petr Baudis <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [kbuild] Possibility to sanely link against off-directory .so |
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Dear diary, on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:22:45PM CET, I got a letter, where Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org> told me, that... > Remember, the whole point of HOSTCC is to support a build environment > different from the compile target - arbitrarily different, even.
I'm a bit lost here - the kernel uses tons of gcc extensions - how is another compiler supposed to understand them? And if it is specifically extended to understand them, isn't it likely that it'll understand the -shared switch in gcc-like way as well?
Or better, what other compiler is known to build a kernel than gcc? At least anything that doesn't define __GNUC__ should IMHO fail inside of init/main.c. And how likely is situation when someone want to configure a kernel with non-gcc compiler and actually build it with gcc?
I thought that the point of HOSTCC is to allow to use a non-standart version of gcc for kernel build.
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