[openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: RHEL5 and OFED ...
> 
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 22:28 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On a tangent, is there a way to set up a cross-build environment that will
> > build kernel modules for e.g. RHEL amd64 kernel on a 32 bit machine?
> > I'm doing this now with gcc and kernel.org kernel I built myself from source.
> > I guess I mostly need to get gcc and binutils SRPMs to generate
> > cross-compiling tools - has anyone done that?
> 
> At least for Red Hat, rpm already mostly supports this with only a few
> examples of breakage (apps needing gfortran like openmpi are an example
> that might break depending on usage).

So, you are saying I shuld rpmbuild binutils and gcc rpms?
Hmm, I'll give it a try.

>  You can
> call rpmbuild with the --target option to specify the mode you want the
> package built as

Hmm, no, I really want to take a srpm from amd64 and get a 32 bit
gcc executable that will build 64 bit binaries that match these
built on native amd64 system exectly.

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