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From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
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Subject: Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils
In-Reply-To: <199703282029.NAA03736@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Mar 28, 97 01:29:59 pm"
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
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> > 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?
> 
That's it, you can configure support for different formats, no
matter what platform you compile it on.

> 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.
> 
I'll try that, thanks.

Marc.