<div dir="ltr">Thanks. That makes sense; all the cross compile tools are built using the Host machines native toolchain on the host then the cross-toolchain used to cross compile yocto for the target.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 February 2016 at 17:13, Burton, Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ross.burton@intel.com" target="_blank">ross.burton@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 February 2016 at 15:07, Mark T <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtl1nuxd3v@gmail.com" target="_blank">mtl1nuxd3v@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I notice there is a meta/recipes-devtools - I assume this pulls in from build/downloads - so gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2 for example. Does the tool-chain comprised of these recipes get built by /usr/bin/gcc before being used to compile Yocto ? <br></div></blockquote></div><br></span>The host's gcc (typically /usr/bin/gcc) is used to build gcc-cross, which is then used to compile everything that needs to be cross-compiled. We don't build our own native compiler to replace the host compiler.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></font></span></div>
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