From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 3 17:17: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC2C1522B for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 17:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA23548; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:16:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA48672; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:16:36 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199909040016.SAA48672@harmony.village.org> To: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) Subject: Re: Changes to binutils (--target=alpha-freebsd) Cc: Michael Kennett , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "03 Sep 1999 17:06:28 PDT." <87iu5rbkvv.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> References: <87iu5rbkvv.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> <199909020816.QAA19052@laurasia.com.au> <199909032310.RAA48427@harmony.village.org> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 18:16:36 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <87iu5rbkvv.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> Chris G. Demetriou writes: : 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. I've had problems in the past getting working Alpha binaries produced from compilation on a i386 box. I'd been told by several people this was due to the lack of support of producing 64-bit targets on 32-bit hosts in binutils... Is that not true? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message