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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>
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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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