From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 8 18:32:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA19507 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA19499 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA12317; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:26:14 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604090156.LAA12317@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: GNU binutils port To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:26:13 +0930 (CST) Cc: witr@rwwa.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199604081719.LAA26093@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Apr 8, 96 11:19:47 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > > gcc builds out of the box for cross compiling on FreeSBD. Since the > ports are designed to have just a make done and it works, there is no > need to have gcc as a port. The reason being that you must do some > manual configuration before the cross compilation will work. I > thought thte whole point of doing a "port" was to eliminate that. Yup. Crossing with GCC is relatively easy, but it _does_ require some manual intervention. > Also, building a cross compiler can still be a bit of a black art. It > is best done by hand because there are a number of niggling little > logistical issues that trip up people in the process. > > I think that I must be missing something here... Hmm. Dunno 8) The masters of GCC crossing can be found at http://www.cygnus.com/; they have a nice reentrant C library (newlib) that's portable to a pile of architectures as well. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[