Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:32:45 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r260022 - head/lib/libkvm Message-ID: <20131229033245.GY99167@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <7F0C4872-DB2A-4E6B-A8B8-E366989312C5@xcllnt.net> References: <201312282301.rBSN1wWP002326@svn.freebsd.org> <20131229010848.GV99167@funkthat.com> <7F0C4872-DB2A-4E6B-A8B8-E366989312C5@xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 18:49 -0800: > > On Dec 28, 2013, at 5:08 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > > > Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 23:01 +0000: > >> Author: marcel > >> Date: Sat Dec 28 23:01:57 2013 > >> New Revision: 260022 > >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/260022 > >> > >> Log: > >> Allow building a cross libkvm by setting TARGET_ARCH. The library so > >> produced will be called libkvm-${ARCH} instead of libkvm. This allows > >> installing it alongside the native version. > >> For symbol lookups, use ps_pglobal_lookup() instead of __fdnlist() > >> when building a cross libkvm. It is assumed that the cross tool that > >> uses the cross libkvm also provides an implementation for this > >> proc_services function. > >> > >> Note that this commit does not change any of the architecture-specific > >> code for cross-compilation. > > > > Shouldn't we be putting cross compiled libaries in another location > > than /lib? Kind of like the compat32 libs? > > I don't think we're there yet. libkvm is not ready for generic > cross building and we don't really have the infrastructure for > it either. For one, we really need to install CPU-specific > headers on the host. > > We can manually cross-build a few things, like binutils and gdb > and I see value to extend that to kgdb, but that's about it. Then what was the goal of this commit? Was it to have an i386 compatible libkvm that links w/ amd64 binaries? or? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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