Ralf Baechle wrote:

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:12:18PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:

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If you cross-compile, you just redefine most of the stuff like CcCmd,
ArCmd, etc, anyway.

Yes, but you have to make sure the redefinitions don't get redefined
again, therefore IMHO an "#ifdef AsCmd" is needed. Otherwise the
definition in hosts.def will be overriden by the one in linux.cf.

Does X building ever need the hostcompiler?

This depends on your taste basically. If you want 'clean' build w/o
stupid errors, you should define CROSS_COMPILE and other macros to be
used diring cross compilation. After that, X understands there are
hostcompiler and crosscompiler. Then, makedepend & Co are compiled by
hostcompiler and X server itself are compiler by cross compiler. In
principle, you may safely ignore all that stuff and be ready to build
makedep & Co manually.

Regards,
Gleb.