From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 13:47:40 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 9058316A4CE; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:47:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out1.xs4all.nl (smtp-out1.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE7F43D4C; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:47:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-out1.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5GDlRLM047029; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:47:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5GDkEp7017604; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:46:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5GDkEXv017603; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:46:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:46:14 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Ruslan Ermilov Message-ID: <20040616134614.GA17567@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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/1.4.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 13:47:40 -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 ? > > > > > > > : RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbfd/i386/bfd.h,v > > > : ---------------------------- > > > : revision 1.22 > > > : date: 2004/04/18 16:09:33; author: obrien; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 > > > : Revert rev 1.21 which configured with --enable-64-bit-bfd. > > > : GDB 5.2 can't handle a 64-bit BFD on a 32-bit host. > > > : We can revisit configuring with --enable-64-bit-bfd when we get a modern GDB. > > > > > > 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 Eh... don't insult our brave NoName please ;-) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org