Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:07:49 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, paipai@tin.it, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Ultra] Compiler, again Message-ID: <365FA145.7305427D@softweyr.com> References: <19981128120008.W468@freebie.lemis.com> <199811280218.NAA24051@cimlogic.com.au> <19981128124255.E6182@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 28 November 1998 at 13:18:06 +1100, John Birrell wrote:
>
> > Last time I tried building a 64-bit (alpha) cross-compiler on a 32-bit
> > (i386) system, I couldn't get it to compile. I may not have configured
> > the thing properly, so YMMV, but it is worth checking the gcc or egcs
> > configure scripts to see if Cygnus have support for the host/target
> > combination you require. At a guess I'd say that unless there is a
> > Linux/i386 hosted option for the sparc64, then it's unlikely to
> > work out-of-the-box.
>
> Yes, I've tried and given up too, though I didn't try very hard. But
> it's definitely not the trivial build that native gcc is.
But Alpha isn't nearly as well supported by GCC as SPARC. Try building
a true cross-compiler, either --target=sparc-aout or --target=sparc-elf.
These don't expect to have any system include files to fix, or any
vendor support libraries that must be linked.
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