From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 3 17: 7:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.netbsd.org (redmail.netbsd.org [155.53.200.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4064614A12 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 17:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cgd@netbsd.org) Received: (qmail 7894 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Sep 1999 00:06:29 -0000 To: Warner Losh Cc: Michael Kennett , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to binutils (--target=alpha-freebsd) References: <199909020816.QAA19052@laurasia.com.au> <199909032310.RAA48427@harmony.village.org> From: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) Date: 03 Sep 1999 17:06:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of Fri, 03 Sep 1999 17:10:23 -0600 Message-ID: <87iu5rbkvv.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Warner Losh 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