From owner-freebsd-sparc Fri Mar 31 6:40:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from euromail1.genrad.com (x37.genrad.co.uk [195.99.3.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 577D437B7E8 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swindellsr@genrad.co.uk) Received: from CDP437 (cdp437.uk.genrad.com [132.223.131.31]) by euromail1.genrad.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id H9RQSFH8; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:40:04 +0100 From: Robert Swindells To: mtempel@visi.com Cc: kdulzo@gerp.org, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <003301bf9ace$8325db60$49ec62d1@dirac> (mtempel@visi.com) Subject: Re: Cross compilation problems Reply-To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <20000331144005.577D437B7E8@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:40:05 -0800 (PST) Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Tempel wrote: >I don't know if that is exactly the compiler that we need. My impression, >is that we really need a freebsd-sparc compiler. I have been using the >NetBSD sparc gcc for my playing around, but we will need a FreeBSD >version soon. The problem I see is that the NetBSD compiler will build a.out >binaries, however FreeBSD needs elf binary files. NetBSD can load both a.out and ELF binaries, different ports default to using one format or the other for their userland. I would suggest building a NetBSD/sparc kernel with ELF support in addition to a.out. In any case, we would want FreeBSD/sparc to be able to run NetBSD/sparc and (if possible) SunOS 4.x binaries, so any kernel work to run a.out binaries on FreeBSD/sparc isn't wasted. Robert Swindells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message