Re: [PATCH] improve mig building guide

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Pasha (biblio), le ven. 02 févr. 2024 18:26:05 +0100, a ecrit:
> @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ Build and install the Mach Interface Generator into _$GNU_ 
> (i.e. _~/gnu/_ in our
>  
>      $ make all install
>  
> +In case of --target 32-bit, mig might be installed as i686-(linux)-gnu-mig. 
> Create a symbolic link for mig:
> +
> +     $ cd ~/gnu/bin/
> +     $ ln -s i686-linux-gnu-mig mig

Mmm, that shouldn't be needed: if you pass --target=i686-gnu, it will be
called i686-gnu-mig, which gnumach's configure will find.


> @@ -102,3 +107,12 @@ the following to e.g. your _~/.bash\_profile_:
>  If you already have e.g. _~/bin_ in your _$PATH_, you could also create a 
> symbolic link:
>  
>      $ ln -s ~/gnu/bin/mig ~/bin/
> +
> +For advance users, if you want to build mig(com) as ELF32 binary to copy to 
> a 32-bit machine or any other purposes, you need to add --host, LD, CC 
> options:

Is this really useful?

Samuel