From owner-cvs-gnu Tue May 5 01:47:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA27996 for cvs-gnu-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 01:47:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-gnu) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA27960; Tue, 5 May 1998 01:46:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA26278; Tue, 5 May 1998 09:49:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 09:49:35 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Birrell cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils Makefile.inc0 In-Reply-To: <199805042110.OAA28860@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-gnu@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 May 1998, John Birrell wrote: > jb 1998/05/04 14:10:57 PDT > > Modified files: > gnu/usr.bin/binutils Makefile.inc0 > Log: > Add makefile support for cross-architectures. Allow CROSS_TOOLS to > be defined (in /etc/make.conf, say) and set to the additional architectures > that need to be compiled in. So on alpha I set CROSS_TOOLS = i386. > On i386 you can't build alpha due to lack of 64-bit support on 32-bit > architectures, but that's a GNU problem. Actually I made some headway with building alpha tools on i386 current by tweaking the bfd.h which came out of configure. When I get back from my trip, I will have another look at it. While you are in this area, how about importing binutils 2.9.x? It fixes a bunch of ELF linking problems for i386 at least and probably others. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039