Thanks. That makes sense; all the cross compile tools are built using the
Host machines native toolchain on the host then the cross-toolchain used to
cross compile yocto for the target.



On 3 February 2016 at 17:13, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:

>
> On 3 February 2016 at 15:07, Mark T <mtl1nuxd3v@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I notice there is a meta/recipes-devtools  -  I assume this pulls in from
>> build/downloads - so gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2 for example. Does the tool-chain
>> comprised of these recipes get built by /usr/bin/gcc before being used to
>> compile Yocto ?
>>
>
> The host's gcc (typically /usr/bin/gcc) is used to build gcc-cross, which
> is then used to compile everything that needs to be cross-compiled.  We
> don't build our own native compiler to replace the host compiler.
>
> Ross
>