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Correct a misunderstanding about cross-compiling. Anton's changes don't

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cause LLVM to become a cross-compiler but rather cross-compile LLVM so that
it can execute on a platform other than the build host.


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<li><a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a>
<li><a href="#config">Local LLVM Configuration</a>
<li><a href="#compile">Compiling the LLVM Suite Source Code</a>
<li><a href="#cross-compile">Compiling LLVM As A Cross-Compiler</a>
<li><a href="#cross-compile">Cross-Compiling LLVM</a>
<li><a href="#objfiles">The Location of LLVM Object Files</a>
<li><a href="#optionalconfig">Optional Configuration Items</a>
</ol></li>
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<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection">
<a name="cross-compile">Compiling LLVM as a Cross-compiler</a>
<a name="cross-compile">Cross-Compiling LLVM</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>LLVM can be built as a cross-compiler, however some additional steps are
required.<sup><a href="#ccn_1">1</a></sup> To build a cross-compiler, use
<p>It is possible to cross-compile LLVM. That is, you can create LLVM
executables and libraries for a platform different than the one one which you
are compiling. To do this, a few additional steps are
required. <sup><a href="#ccn_1">1</a></sup> To cross-compile LLVM, use
these instructions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Configure and build LLVM Suite as a native compiler. You will need
<li>Configure and build LLVM as a native compiler. You will need
just <tt>TableGen</tt> from that build.
<ul>
<li>If you have <tt>$LLVM_OBJ_ROOT=$LLVM_SRC_ROOT</tt> just execute
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</li>
<li>Copy the TableGen binary to somewhere safe (out of your build tree).
</li>
<li>Configure LLVM to build as a cross-compiler. To do this, supply the
<li>Configure LLVM to build with a cross-compiler. To do this, supply the
configure script with <tt>--build</tt> and <tt>--host</tt> options that
are different. The values of these options must be legal target triples and
should specify a processor for which LLVM supports code generation.</li>
are different. The values of these options must be legal target triples
that your GCC compiler supports.</li>
<li>Put the saved <tt>TableGen</tt> executable into the
into <tt>$LLVM_OBJ_ROOT/{BUILD_TYPE}/bin</tt> directory (e.g. into
<tt>.../Release/bin</tt> for a Release build).</li>
<li>Build LLVM as usual.</li>
</ol>
<p>The result of such a build will produce executables that are not executable
on your build host (--build option) but can be executed on your compile host
(--host option).</p>
<p><b>Notes:</b></p>
<div class="doc_notes">
<ol>