Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:32:19 -0400 (EDT) From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: jc@irbs.com, mike@hpanalog.mdc.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 68K cross assembler? Message-ID: <199510252132.RAA20219@irbs.irbs.com> In-Reply-To: <199510252113.OAA19519@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 25, 95 02:13:21 pm
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Terry Lambert writes: > > > I use the GNU tools for cross compiling to 68XXX and to MIPS CPU's. > > Its trivial to build cross tools these days. > > > > Pick up the latest binutils from a GNU site, binutils-2.5.2, and > > gcc-2.6.3. > > > > I use this to build executables in sun3 object format. > > ./configure -v --host=386bsd --target=sun3 > > Say. That's annoying. > > I really hate non-incremental cross build environments. I guess it > comes from using configure instead of makefiles to do the cross > build ...that's the problem with configure: it wants a single > target to result from the configuration process. No way to mount > the same CDROM/read-only-NFS on multiple machines and generate > working code without fighting the configure program first. 8-(. > You can build the binutils package will all targets compiled in. Don't know if it will figure out what the target is if you do `size file' for instance. AFAIK the compiler must be built for a specific target. Not that big a deal unless you have tools for dozens of environments. It better than nothing. John Capo IRBS Engineering High performance FreeBSD systems
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