Date: 03 Sep 1999 17:06:28 -0700 From: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to binutils (--target=alpha-freebsd) Message-ID: <87iu5rbkvv.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of Fri, 03 Sep 1999 17:10:23 -0600 References: <199909020816.QAA19052@laurasia.com.au> <199909032310.RAA48427@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes: > It is almost that simple. However, binutils doesn't support > generating 64-bit targets with 32-bit hosts. Until binutils does, you > are not going to make this work. probably depends on what you mean by "support." I've definitely used (self-built) cross-tools on my NetBSD/i386 laptop to build e.g. NetBSD/alpha kernels in the past. I seem to recall that i had to tweak one or two uses of strtoul() i think it was, but other than that it produced working results. cgd -- Chris Demetriou - cgd@netbsd.org - http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/cgd.html Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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