From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 23 00:41:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA03300 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamby1.lightside.net (hamby1.lightside.net [207.67.176.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA03287 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jehamby@localhost) by hamby1.lightside.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA00487; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:04:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hamby1.lightside.net: jehamby owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:04:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@hamby1 To: Michael Smith cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interest in a linux_crossdev port? In-Reply-To: <199610230447.OAA24090@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'd very much like to see that. If nothing else, it would make creating a native FreeBSD port of GNAT (GNU Ada compiler) a bit easier to bootstrap from the corresponding Linux version (GNAT is written in Ada so it's a real Catch-22 trying to port it!). I have patches from the i386-NetBSD version of GNAT (using pthreads), I just haven't had time to try them yet on FreeBSD. Anyway, I may end up not needing a linux_crossdev port to bootstrap GNAT, but it certainly can't hurt! Go for it! -- Jake On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > Ok, we currently have the 'linux_lib' package, which is quite suitable for > people who want to run Lunix binaries. > > However setting up tools to build Linux binaries is a Right Royal pain, > made no easier at all by the crap they call "distributions". > > Is it felt that there's some interest in a package that would put all > the bits in more-or-less the right place? Obviously, this isn't going > to track their patch-of-the-hour environment, but if we base it on the > same release as the 'linux_lib' package, people should have a fairly > consistent environment to work with. > > I've just gone through the horror involved here, and I thought it might > be good to do this before it all fades away again. Any advice (erich?) > would be appreciated... > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > >