From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 09:43:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C03716A4CE; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:43:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ares.wolfpond.org (ns1.wolfpond.org [62.212.96.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD06343D54; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:43:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ftigeot@wolfpond.org) Received: from aoi.wolfpond.org (aoi.wolfpond.org [IPv6:2001:7a8:24db:1:20c:76ff:feb4:27e1]) by ares.wolfpond.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5G9gkNf001285; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:42:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ftigeot@aoi.wolfpond.org) Received: from aoi.wolfpond.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aoi.wolfpond.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5G9gov9027505; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:42:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ftigeot@aoi.wolfpond.org) Received: (from ftigeot@localhost) by aoi.wolfpond.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i5G9goGA027504; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:42:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ftigeot) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:42:50 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot To: Ruslan Ermilov Message-ID: <20040616094250.GA27438@aoi.wolfpond.org> References: <20040616052331.GA35954@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040616063322.GA23345@aoi.wolfpond.org> <20040616064551.GE20866@ip.net.ua> <20040616080459.GC23345@aoi.wolfpond.org> <20040616081605.GA22410@ip.net.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040616081605.GA22410@ip.net.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New binutils import X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:43:33 -0000 On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:16:05AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:04:59AM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 09:45:51AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:33:22AM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:23:31PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > I have disconnected (i.e., disabled) `gdb` from 'make world' due to the > > > > > impending binutils 2.15 import. > > > > > > > > Is there any plan to configure the new binutils with --enable-64-bit-bfd so > > > > that we can do 64->32 bit buildworlds ? > > > > > > So (I think) this will happen not earlier than GDB 6 import. > > > David will correct me if I'm wrong. > > > > Oops, I should have tried to search in commit messages... > > > > Anyway, it's good news to see that this is being worked upon. Compiling > > on VIA C3s is not fun :) > > > Beware that world compiled on 64-bit machines for i386 is not > completely useful for running at the moment. At least this was > the case when trying to run world compiled for Alpha on an i386 > box. The reason is that many binary files and MD, and this needs > to be dealt with. I wanted to start this project, but I still > lack the necessary hardware (I only have a damn slow Alpha at > the moment). I suspect more problems for different endianness > architectures. Anyway, I briefly looked on the issue, and NetBSD > has progressed a lot in this direction, so this should not be > unsolvable. Once I get my faster Alpha or SPARC64 box, I will > launch the project. I did not find any issue with binaries compiled from amd64 to i386. I only used a custom kernel and a small set of userland programs, though. -- Francois Tigeot