how to cross compile kexec for 64b x86_64 on a 32b x86

[Bernhard Walle]

* Neil Horman <nhorman at redhat.com> [2008-06-24 14:52]:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:11:36AM -0700, Srinivas Murthy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	I need to cross-compile kexec-tools-1.101 for a x86_64 architecture
> > platform on a 32b x86.
> > 
> > 	I didn't see any instructions in the configure, etc. scripts for doing this.
> > 
> > 	Can you please let me know how to do this?
> > 
> Mostly, you can get away with adding -m32 to the top level CFLAGS in the
> makefile and running setarch i386 in the shell where you run make

It's the other way round. Not i386 on x86-64, but x86-64 on i386.

(BTW: 'setarch' does not exist on SUSE, we use 'linux32'. I don't have
an overview about other Linux distributions. Unfortunately, that seems
to be not standardised via LSB.)



Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development