Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 for-2.8 0/9] tcg queued patches

[Richard Henderson]

On 11/01/2016 12:17 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 1 November 2016 at 17:51, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The usual pain point for me is building for 32-bit on a 64-bit
> > system, where there is no cross-prefix that one can use, and
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH and --extra-cflags are the only changes.
>
> That sounds like a bug in how the 32-bit compilers work on
> x86 ;-) Ideally you should be able to get a 32-bit compile
> with i586-linux-gnu-gcc...

gcc -m32 worked very well for years, before pkg-config came along and mucked 
things up by using package-local include and library directories.  As long as 
everything was installed in the toolchain-aware search paths, everything Just 
Worked.


r~