On 1/16/06, Richard Kenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I never tried to "bootstrap" on x86_64 using --host=i686 --target=i686 > to build a 32bit compiler building 32bit > > Well, that's my point. It's not really a bootstrap. First you use the > cross-compiler to build a native compiler and *then* you bootstrap.
The question what is "native" here remains - on a biarch platform I can run both 32bit and 64bit executables. So the argument is we can "stretch" the definition of a bootstrap or a native compiler a bit in allowing all 32bit/64bit combinations as native configurations rather than cross-compilers. config.guess of course just uses uname to decide what the host environment is, and uname does not know anything about bi-archness. Richard.
