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Date:      Mon, 11 May 1998 11:40:36 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as Makefile 
Message-ID:  <14450.894879636@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 02:31:18 PDT." <199805110931.CAA28469@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <199805110931.CAA28469@freefall.freebsd.org>, John Birrell writes:
>jb          1998/05/11 02:31:18 PDT
>
>  Modified files:
>    gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as Makefile 
>  Log:
>  Add CROSS_TARGETS to the list of GASES to build. We end up with a separate
>  gas for each target format. So for m68k targets that means several
>  gases. I wanted a m68k gas for VxWorks which uses aout in sun3 big
>  endian format, cross compiled on i386 under FreeBSD using libraries
>  supplied by DEC and intended by them for cross compilation on Alpha
>  under OSF/1. And it actually works!

This is the kind of statement that makes me predict that pretty soon we 
will return to programming in machinecode by hand... :-)

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal



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