Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Frederik Schueler <fs@debian.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:45:02AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> - Or .kerneltoolchain.
>>   This file specifies any toolchain setting CC, LD, AS and so on.
>
> could this be used to cross-build the amd64 kernels on i386 userland, so
> we can add back the 64bit kernels for i386?
>
> Best regards
> Frederik Schueler
>
> -- 
> ENOSIG

That is already taken care of in the kernel. Just using plain gcc the
kernel adds the -m64 and -64 switches for gcc and as.

The problem was make-kpkg. It would always assume a cross compile. You
can overrule that now by setting --cross-compile='-'.

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359019

MfG
        Goswin