Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:09:52 +0100 From: Kai Wang <kaiwang27@gmail.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org>, "Dag-Erling C. Smorgrav" <des@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile) Message-ID: <20080222180952.GB2622@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> In-Reply-To: <20080222102409.GD57428@team.vega.ru> References: <20080221131209.GA2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221140247.GC2022@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080221143351.GP57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <fpk4fa$gj0$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080221152549.GB21518@team.vega.ru> <20080221173150.GA93693@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080222070728.GA56282@team.vega.ru> <20080222091642.GB57428@team.vega.ru> <20080222093234.GB17107@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080222102409.GD57428@team.vega.ru>
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:24:09PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Currently, we always build binutils as part of cross-tools, including > GNU ar(1) and ranlib(1). These binaries are then used during the build. > The BSD ar(1) doesn't need to be a cross-tool -- it doesn't depend on > TARGET_ARCH/TARGET and is platform-neutral. (I hope I'm right about it, > otherwise it all doesn't make sense and cross-builds are broken.) That's true, platform-neutral ELF parsing is a feature of libelf. Kai
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