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From: Pedro Giffuni <m230761@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Emulation of HP-UX or A*X?
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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> Pedro Giffuni stands accused of saying:
> 
> Gcc has been crossable for years as well; there's not much new in
> what you're planning (check with Greg Leahy to see what is worth the
> effort 8).
>
I already built an SCO cross (I knew that gcc could do it and had wanted 
to do it for years), but having to download SCO bins didn't fit 
in the ports tree and besides I had to download glibc because SCO's headers 
are copyrighted.
The great virtue of newlib, is that it is so similar to our libs that we 
could, perhaps, cross compile all our ports tree.
What's really new about cygnus' stuff are the patches so that no native libs 
are required to build the cross-compiler. A cross-compiling port will only 
need to change the target name and BINGO! Another new thing, that hasn't 
been upgraded yet on either glibc or newlib, is that DJGPP 2 doesn't need 
their specific DPMI to execute programs.

Pedro.

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