Changeset 2e7a86a in clfs-sysroot

Timestamp:

Feb 19, 2007, 10:49:25 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

a3ac3a2

Parents:

090d748

Message:

Updated the CLFS_HOST and CLFS_TARGET text.

Location:

BOOK

Files:

• cross-tools/arm/variables.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/common/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

BOOK/cross-tools/arm/variables.xml

@@ -15 +15 @@
   <para os="a">During the building of the cross-compile tools you will need to
   set a few variables that will be dependent on your particular needs.
-  The first variable will be the triplet of the <envar>HOST</envar> machine.
-  You will need to set the <envar>CHOST</envar> triplet to match your
-  particular needs. To set this information you can issue the following
-  command:</para>
+  The first variable will be the triplet of the host machine, which will be
+  put into the <envar>CLFS_HOST</envar> variable. To account for the
+  possibility that the host and target are the same arch, as cross-compiling
+  won't work when host and target are the same, part of the triplet needs to
+  be changed slightly to add "cross". Set <envar>CLFS_HOST</envar> using the
+  following command:</para>
 
 <screen os="b"><userinput>export CLFS_HOST="$(echo $MACHTYPE | sed "s/$(echo $MACHTYPE | cut -d- -f2)/cross/")"</userinput></screen>
 
-  <para os="c">Now you will need to set the target triplet for the target
-  architecture. You can do this by running the same command as above, just
-  running it on the target machine. If you can't run the command on the
-  target machine, you can use the table at the bottom of this page. Set
-  the command using the method listed below:</para>
+  <para os="c">Now you will need to set the triplet for the target
+  architecture. Set the target variable using the following command:</para>
 
 <screen os="d"><userinput>export CLFS_TARGET="arm-unknown-linux-gnu"</userinput></screen>
@@ -32 +31 @@
   <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Copy settings to Environment</bridgehead>
 
-  <para os="e">Now we will add these to <filename>~/.bashrc</filename>, just in
+  <para os="e">Now add these to <filename>~/.bashrc</filename>, just in
   case you have to exit and restart building later:</para>
 

BOOK/introduction/common/changelog.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
       <para>February 19, 2007</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[jciccone] - Changed the wording in the "Build Variables" page
+          to make it clearer. Copied from Chris's change in clfs-svn.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[jciccone] - Fix the building of Ncurses when an unpatched