Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:50:12 -0500 (EST) From: <morrildl@nycap.rr.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cross building Alpha on an i386 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003282242570.2830-100000@obsequious.net> In-Reply-To: <200003280528.VAA39537@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > I can't seem to find a prior message in the mailing lists about this > problem. A cross build with MACHINE_ARCH=alpha on a FreeBSD/x86 system > fails: In the Linux world, the gurus say that you can't cross-build for the Alpha from a 32-bit system with gcc. IIRC (which is unlikely :) it's got something to do with gas not being equipped to deal with 64-bit pointers and instructions on a system with 32-bit registers. (Doing a cross from 64-bit to 32-bit archs works.) My understanding is that this is a gcc/gas thing, and not a Linux thing, so that may be your problem. On the other hand, I'd expect that they built Linux on the Itanium as a cross from IA32, so maybe gcc's been fixed and I'm wrong. Just a possibility... Dan Morrill ...standing ready to be corrected by those who know more. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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