not really a bug .. is there a way to set the host type in the Makefile.am ?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2019-02-18 22:24:35 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 2/18/19 8:25 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2019-02-18 16:44:48 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> >>
> >> This may seem like a strange question but I am running into many
> >> problems while trying to build gcc 8.2.0 for a RISC-V target. With
> >> a cross compiler toolset I am easily able to create output ELF files
> >> for the rv64gc architecture and so that is not a problem. However that
> >> is only possible ( thus far ) when building gmp separately. The gcc code
> >> requires that I extract the gmp/mpfr/mpc sources inside the gcc sources
> >> tree and then build/bootstrap gcc which in turns rebuilds gmp all over
> >> again.  Regardless if it is pre-installed elsewhere or not.
> > [...]
> > 
> > Isn't this a question for the gcc-help mailing-list?
> > 
> 
> Well yes, it is. However given that the problem occurs within the gmp
> and mpfr source builds I felt it can not hurt to ask here.  Given that
> no one seems to know what to do really.

It seems more likely to be an issue with the gcc build scripts.
I don't think that GMP and MPFR can or should do anything.

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