From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 18 1:22: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6359D153A6 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 01:22:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA28885 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:22:01 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA61423 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:22:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B97E154BF for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 01:17:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA20875; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:20:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:20:15 +1100 From: John Birrell To: Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross compilation goals. Message-ID: <19991118202014.C13376@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <19991117184034.A53402@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911151707.JAA03820@freefall.freebsd.org> <199911160533.WAA02391@harmony.village.org> <199911180559.WAA21245@harmony.village.org> <3833A123.E390849A@germany.sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <3833A123.E390849A@germany.sun.com>; from Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:48:03AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:48:03AM +0100, Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany wrote: > > Non-goal: > > > > 1) Have the cross compilation code necessarily work on other > > systems. > > what does that mean? > > in this context, what does "other system" mean? To me it means that I can build tools that are hosted on FreeBSD but targeted to things like rtems, Lynxos, VxWorks etc. The binutils stuff in the tree already supports this. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ john.birrell@cai.com john.birrell@opendirectory.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message