[linux-audio-dev] Cross compiling the kernel

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 20:48 +0100, Kai Ruemmler wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > All I am trying to do is compile an x86_64 kernel on i386 machine.  It
> > dos not work:
>  
> > $ ARCH=x86_64 make oldconfig
> > <no errors>
>  
> > $ ARCH=x86_64 make 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > What gives?  Do I need a different compiler to build for x86_64?
> 
> Yes. 
> 
> Cross compiling the kernel works like this:
> 
> $ make ARCH=<arch> CROSS_COMPILE=<arch-prefix>
> 
> The gcc cross compiler for x86_64 is usually named x86_64-linux-gcc.
> 
> In the special case of x86 -> x86_64 a 64 bit enabled gcc is sufficient
> though (if your binutils support 64 bit). In all other cases you need 
> a "real" cross compiler.

Can you tell me which Ubuntu/Debian packages to install to make this
work?  I did "apt-cache search | grep 64" and did not see any GCC or
binutils packages.

The closest thing I saw was lib64gcc1 which I'm installing now.

Lee