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

[Neil Horman]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:55:08PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * 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.
> 
ah, my bad. yes, for 64 bit on a 32 bit arch, you'll certainly need a cross-cc.

Neil

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