From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 28 19:59:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04B637B8F8 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig-burgess@home.net) Received: from home.net ([24.0.178.21]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000329035938.YDDW17125.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.net>; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:59:38 -0800 Message-ID: <38E1809F.5CBA9037@home.net> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:03:43 -0800 From: Craig Burgess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: morrildl@nycap.rr.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cross building Alpha on an i386 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Would not big-endian / little-endian be of great significance (and a serious hurdle)? Craig in perpetual learning mode -- ... mind like a steel trap: things wander in and get mangled ... morrildl@nycap.rr.com wrote: > > 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