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To: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
Subject: Re: GCC cross compiles 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:00:40 MST."
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 22:48:46 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199702200100.SAA10423@seagull.rtd.com> Don Yuniskis writes:
:     However, am I correct in assuming that one can safely build
: *cross* compilers under reasonably recent FBSD releases using
: the latest GCC sources (i.e. host=FBSD2.1R, target=68k)?
: Has anyone done this and had decent success?

I've done this with the raw gcc/binutils distribution, with the cygnus
release and the OpenBSD tree.  Forget it with the gcc/binutils in the
freebsd tree, they are intel only.  However, once you get the full
sources, it generally is as simple as doing ./configure
--target=mips-unknown-openbsd2.0 --host=i386-unknown-freebsd2.2
followed by a make.  You'll need to arrange for include files and
libraries, but that isn't too hard.

Check out http://www.village.org/villagers/imp/build.html for
something I wrote up a while ago on how to do this for Linux/MIPS.

Warner