From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 1 12:20:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9AD16A403 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 12:20:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from fw.zoral.com.ua (ll-227.216.82.212.sovam.net.ua [212.82.216.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FB943D45 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 12:20:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (root@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua [10.1.1.148]) by fw.zoral.com.ua (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k61CK5LG073560 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:20:05 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (kostik@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k61CK58I039586; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:20:05 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: (from kostik@localhost) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k61CK53L039585; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:20:05 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:20:05 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov To: Mikhail Teterin Message-ID: <20060701122005.GC37822@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <200607010009.09231@aldan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9Ek0hoCL9XbhcSqy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607010009.09231@aldan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.2, clamav-milter version 0.88.2 on fw.zoral.com.ua X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on fw.zoral.com.ua Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird limitation on the system's binutils X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:20:20 -0000 --9Ek0hoCL9XbhcSqy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:09:08AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! >=20 > I'm wondering, why the bfd and related bits and pieces of binutils are bu= ilt=20 > to support only the architecture(s), that can natively run on the system? >=20 > Why can't I use gdb or objdump on FreeBSD/i386 to analyze a core file, or= a=20 > binary from another FreeBSD or even from a non-FreeBSD system? >=20 > The tools themselves support that. The sources (bfd-vectors) for all othe= r=20 > supported architectures are part of the tree (under contrib/). So, why no= t=20 > build them? AFAIK, binutils can only support one architecture per invocation=A0of configuration scripts. I.e., you cannot have one gas binary that would provide both i386-elf and hppa-som targets. Correct me, if I'm wrong. --9Ek0hoCL9XbhcSqy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEpmh0C3+MBN1Mb4gRAp1uAKCZTXz8j/nC1y0uxIBVk4drVWKqHgCgyZyr gRXmLt9Lgnhu3ipKCNq0A7E= =Piu/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9Ek0hoCL9XbhcSqy--