[Wolves] Macs, Linux et al

[Adam Sweet]

--- David Morgan <david.morgan at wadham.oxford.ac.uk>
wrote:
> On 14:06 Mon 11 Apr     , Adam Sweet wrote:
> > 
> > Similar for Linux, but the Linux kernel source
> > separates out the hardware specific stuff and
> offers
> > support for different processors, so you select
> your
> > processor in the kernel configuration process so
> it
> > knows which architecture to compile for at compile
> > time. Obviously never tried it, but for that
> reason
> > you couldn't compile a kernel for a Sparc machine
> on
> > PPC machine as the resultant binaries are specific
> to
> > the processor type it was compiled on and it's
> > processor instructions.

> I guess you've never heard of cross-compiling then?

Yes but wasn't sure if you could do it
cross-architecture. I know GCC and most *nix compiler
suites are cross-platform, but from not having done it
as stated above, I thought it might require access to
the processor in question.

Ad

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