Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:38:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, paipai@tin.it, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Ultra] Compiler, again Message-ID: <19981128173815.X6182@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <365FA145.7305427D@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 12:07:49AM -0700 References: <19981128120008.W468@freebie.lemis.com> <199811280218.NAA24051@cimlogic.com.au> <19981128124255.E6182@freebie.lemis.com> <365FA145.7305427D@softweyr.com>
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On Saturday, 28 November 1998 at 0:07:49 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Saturday, 28 November 1998 at 13:18:06 +1100, John Birrell wrote: >> >>> Last time I tried building a 64-bit (alpha) cross-compiler on a 32-bit >>> (i386) system, I couldn't get it to compile. I may not have configured >>> the thing properly, so YMMV, but it is worth checking the gcc or egcs >>> configure scripts to see if Cygnus have support for the host/target >>> combination you require. At a guess I'd say that unless there is a >>> Linux/i386 hosted option for the sparc64, then it's unlikely to >>> work out-of-the-box. >> >> Yes, I've tried and given up too, though I didn't try very hard. But >> it's definitely not the trivial build that native gcc is. > > But Alpha isn't nearly as well supported by GCC as SPARC. Try building > a true cross-compiler, either --target=sparc-aout or --target=sparc-elf. > These don't expect to have any system include files to fix, or any > vendor support libraries that must be linked. I wasn't talking about alpha. In fact, it's so long ago I can't remember what it was. The real issue was that I didn't have much time, and I wasn't expecting it to be as much work as it was. 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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