Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 13:21:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Paolo Di Francesco <paipai@tin.it>, cnielsen@pobox.com, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Ultra] Compiler, again Message-ID: <19981128132125.H6182@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981128013741.DGF5035.fep03-svc@winworkstation>; from Paolo Di Francesco on Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 02:40:04AM %2B0000 References: <19981127170550.YEQB21309.fep01-svc@winworkstation> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811271330400.96971-100000@ender.sf.scient.com> <19981128013741.DGF5035.fep03-svc@winworkstation>
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On Saturday, 28 November 1998 at 2:40:04 +0000, Paolo Di Francesco wrote: > This must have been cnielsen@pobox.com >> On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Paolo Di Francesco wrote: >> >>> 1) do we really need the toolchain? I have downloaded gcc2.8 and I found this >> >> Um... yes. Without the toolchain, you won't be building any sparc64-elf >> binaries. > > Sorry for my stupid question, but is the kernel an elf-bin? I think no, but > maybe I'm wrong. Well, that's a decision to be made, but I'd be very surprised if it were not. The i386 architecture used a.out for hysterical raisins, but I can't imagine anybody introducing it on other platforms. >> In addition to a compiler, you need an assembler and a linker. > > Without assember we can do nothing. Maybe without linker we can do the kernel. > Right? No, you need a linker there, too. > But if we don't try we'll never know! 8) Of course we can. Just look at the Makefiles. >>> 3) Differences between gcc2.8 and toolchain? >> >> gcc-2.8 is just a compiler. See above for details. > > So the question is: what is exactly a toolchain??? All the tools you need to build the package. In addition to the compiler, at least an assembler and linker. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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