From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 4 23:20:34 2003 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 8783C37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:20:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns0.binep.ac.ru (serv2.binep.ac.ru [193.233.44.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F015543FBD for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:20:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from goshik@binep.ac.ru) Received: from byfi (byfi.binep.ac.ru [193.233.44.234]) by ns0.binep.ac.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h257O6a33717; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:24:06 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from goshik@binep.ac.ru) Message-ID: <039001c2e2e7$ae0e7120$ea2ce9c1@binep.ac.ru> From: "Igor B. Bykhalo" To: Cc: "Jens Rehsack" , References: <200303022056.h22KuDIg055497@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3E628ED4.9030203@liwing.de> <20030305070125.GC92645@dragon.nuxi.com> Subject: Re: PATCH: type errors in src-tree Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:20:12 +0300 Organization: BINEPCP RAS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "David O'Brien" > To: "Jens Rehsack" > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:01 AM > Subject: Re: PATCH: type errors in src-tree > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:08:04AM +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote: > > Now, that OpenWatcom is released, the FreeBSd port of it should follow. > > And maybe someone will try to compile the kernel and world with it. > > I hate to be the skeptic, but looking at OpenWatcom 1.0, it only produces > dos and win32 binaries. It will be a *long* time until it targets Unix > correctly. Just FYI: Well, not only dos and win32, but it will be really long... What they have now: > From: "Bart Oldeman" > Newsgroups: openwatcom.contributors > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 7:36 AM > Subject: Re: bootstrap on linux > > In article , Andi Kleen wrote: > > Michal Necasek writes: > > > >> Andi Kleen wrote: > >>> does a native bootstrap on linux of openwatcom work yet? > >>> > >> No. Some of the tools can be built and some even work but not > >> enough to get the build environment going. > > > > Can you elaborate a bit on it. What does work, what doesn't? > > the compilers work (wcc386 and wcc), compiled using gcc and compiled > using watcom. they can however (still) only reliably output OMF > objects. > > wlink can be cross-compiled for Linux but crashes (SIGSEGV) if you > run it there to combine several OMFs into an ELF executable. Without > a working linker the Linux hosted compiler isn't very useful yet > -- and a full bootstrap impossible. > > There has been an attempt to cross-compile wasm, I'm not sure how > far that went. > > wmake cannot be compiled yet -- it uses spawnxx calls that would > need to be translated into fork()s and execve()s for Linux (using > a wrapper or to be implemented in the Watcom LIBC). > > And Linux development has stalled for the last month (lack of time of > the contributors). > > Bart heh > > > If that would work, this would be great, because the watcom compiler > > generates much better code than gcc does, even than gcc -O3 (and all > > known optimizations on). > > Rather than just repeat some old wife's tale; can anyone produce a real > analysis backing this statement up? Not me :) Igor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message