Compiling GCC 8.1.0 on Pi64

Question

I have installed Pi64 from here. I want to compile GCC 8.1.0 as per the instructions here.

However the text of the article sets the target architecture to --with-arch=armv6 which is 32bit?

Should/could I change this to --with-arch=native or something similar for the ability to compile 64 bit applications or should I use --with-arch=armv8-a?

Answer 1

I think that just omitting the gcc parameter --with-arch will compile according to your real architecture.