Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 02:16:46 +0000 From: "Paolo Di Francesco" <paipai@tin.it> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Ultra] Compiler, again Message-ID: <19981128011428.BZH5035.fep03-svc@winworkstation> In-Reply-To: <19981128110256.N468@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19981126012503.TTRF23855.fep04-svc@winworkstation>; from Paolo Di Francesco on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 02:27:21AM %2B0000
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> >
> > Well, onestly I don't know.... Can someone contact a member of the
> > freeBSD core team?
>
> Sure, anyone can contact a member of the FreeBSD core team. I'm
> copying Jordan on this one, because I'm pretty sure this is an issue
> on which the core team will have no differences in opinion.
>
Perfect, so we can have a clear idea what to use... 8)
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> [Back to the Sparc people]
>
> Don't forget that the other flavours of *BSD also use gcc. The
> difference is that they use different Makefiles (which, BTW, are at
> least one order of magnitude less complex). Your challenge would be
> to modify them, preferably in a manner which wouldn't preclude their
> use on other platforms, so that they would also build a Sparc
> compiler. So far, the only platform dependency in
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/Makefile.inc is:
>
> if ${MACHINE_ARCH} != "i386"
> BINFORMAT= elf
> .else
> # Pick aout for now. the elf config is not binary compatable.
> BINFORMAT?= aout
> #BINFORMAT?= elf
> .endif
>
> It seems to me that this wouldn't need changing for Sparc.
I don't know which are the tecnical problems when you compile a cross-compiler.
For the compiler part (use Solaris+gccX.Y) I don't think we have many prob.
> There are other messages which suggest that the future is now. I
> can't see any reason not to move to 2.8.x if that's what it takes. By
> the time the Sparc port gets merged into the main source tree, the
> other platforms will probably support it too. In the meantime you
> could use the version in ports.
>
Yes, if there are no tecnical or political problems we can use it. I don't know
if we can use it as crosscompiler, but we can try.
P.S. I have downloaded gcc2.8. For me, we can start using it... ;)
P.P.S. Rember: I haven't an Ultra. This means "crosscompiling" and I don't know
if we can use gcc for crosscompiling 8(
Ciao Ciao
Paolo Di Francesco
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