From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 28 08:00:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA17347 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:00:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA17340 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:00:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 25609 on Fri, 28 Mar 1997 17:00:10 +0100; id RAA25609 efrom: marc@nietzsche.bowtie.nl; eto: UNKNOWN Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA06713; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:57:46 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199703281557.QAA06713@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: "Daniel M. Eischen" cc: jdp@austin.polstra.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils In-reply-to: deischen's message of Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:00:46 -0600. <199703280100.TAA07336@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:57:46 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I also noted that another recognized target is i386-unknown-freebsdelf > > > which JDP added support for. > > > > That one works fine, but it's for playing around with ELF rather than > > building real FreeBSD binaries. > > Hmm. What's the status of our ELF support? Can I just use the > ELF version and make a cross development system for FreeBSD > ELF binaries? I assume we're going to have native ELF support > some time in the future, so if there was a patch kit to 2.2.1 > (or even 3.0) I could live with that. > > > If you want a cross environment to FreeBSD, your easiest path is > > probably to port the old assembler and linker from our /usr/src tree. > > Will try to do that. > On a related note, can anyone tell me if I can use objcopy to change Linux (static) elf libraries into FreeBSD libraries? If not, is there an alternative? Regards, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------