[TriLUG] sharing kernel source trees?

[Donald Ball]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 04:35:29PM -0500, Donald Ball spoke thusly:
> > why not just compile the kernels on the fastest machine for all of them?
>
> Because the fastes machine is an i386, and one of them is an alpha.
>
> Now, if the i386 can compile an alpha noname kernel...

yes, it can. the kernel Makefile uses a CROSS_COMPILE variable and
something else to trigger a cross compile. your gcc and friends need to
support the target platform of course; i can't say for sure if the
versions that redhat ship can do cross compiling or not.

- donald