Date: 07 Aug 2001 10:07:46 -0700 From: Kevin Mills <kmills@a6l.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cross compiling for AIX Message-ID: <85y9ovkdct.fsf@diablo.in.a6l.net> In-Reply-To: "Antony T Curtis"'s message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:15:19 %2B0100" References: <851ymox0y8.fsf@diablo.in.a6l.net> <3B6FB1A7.8765B5E6@dp.abacus.co.uk>
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"Antony T Curtis" <antony@dp.abacus.co.uk> writes: > I would think this is difficult at best as binutils cannot handle AIX's > XCOFF32/64 object files. On the AIX platform, GCC has to use IBM > supplied ar, ld, as etc. > > You'd be better off just using GCC on AIX and using NFS to make the > files available to both boxes... I use rsh if I want to start gcc on the > AIX box from FreeBSD. Well, the whole reason behind this was that my AIX box (an old F40 with a 233 MHz PowerPC) is amazingly slow. I was hoping I could use my amazingly fast dual 833 MHz FreeBSD box to improve my life even more! Ah, well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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