From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Nov 30 10:39:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25773 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rachel (mail.glenatl.glenayre.com [157.230.160.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA25768 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com) Received: from jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com by rachel (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA02878; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:30:24 -0500 Received: from jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17927; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:30:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199811301830.NAA17927@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Asif Haswarey , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, bright@hotjobs.com, paipai@tin.it Subject: Re: [Ultra] Compiler, again In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:08:42 +1030." <19981126110842.D67961@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:30:11 -0500 From: Jerry Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] > > On Wednesday, 25 November 1998 at 14:11:42 -0500, Jerry Hicks wrote: > > Chuck Youse - Icon CMT Network Operations Center wrote: > >> Use GNU make. > > > > Definitely good advice! > > I prefer GNU make to BSD make, but it's still not good advice. > FreeBSD uses BSD make, and if we start requiring two different makes > to build the product, we're going to have both procedural trouble and > lots of resistance from the core team. > > Greg Hi Greg, Right, but for a first pass just trying to bootstrap GCC it *is* good advice. The port to BSD make must happen, but until the regression tests can be run successfully we don't have a good starting point (do we?) Trying to build a cross-compiler from x86 FreeBSD to sparc64-unknown-elf64 it seems to me that both the FSF and Cygnus EGCS are broken. I'm currently trying to build from Solaris to target sparc64-unknown-elf64 to see if it is just a cross architecture problem. IMHO, we need to get this fixed first and will necessarily need to work with other GCC developers to do this. I wholeheartedly agree that the port to BSD make needs to be done... just not right now. I also agree that gcc28 is preferable over egcs, although we might need to keep an eye out for useful patches from egcs too. Cheers, Jerry Hicks Jerry.Hicks@Glenayre.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message