From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 28 12:45:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA02490 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA02484 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:45:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA03736; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:29:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703282029.NAA03736@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils To: marc@bowtie.nl (Marc van Kempen) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:29:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, jdp@austin.polstra.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199703281704.SAA08349@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> from "Marc van Kempen" at Mar 28, 97 06:04:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I don't think so, but maybe it depends on threading. It's the > library for the solid server database server > (http://www.solidtech.com) > But you're saying that it should be possible? I tried it once > on an Irix (I didn't have enough diskspace on my FreeBSD box > at the time to build the binutils), but I couldn't get it to > work on that platform. Irix for an x86?!?!? Or x86 cross-tools on Irix? ELF does not necessarily mean x86 compatability. > I did this already and this works fine, but I can't debug the > resulting binary, because the ptrace function is not supported > in the emulator, I guess this is not trivial to add? You would have to ask soren or sef. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.