Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 10:23:48 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: rmallory@wiley.csusb.edu, current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: TRUE and FALSE Message-ID: <9502231723.AA03217@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199502230441.VAA17717@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 22, 95 09:41:10 pm
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> Setting up cross-compilation environment if very difficult to do, and > making it work while not affecting normal compilation would be more work > than it would be worth. However, if you are willing to present us with > the patches necessary for this to work, I'm sure you'd find someone to > champion the work and make it work right. The biggest pain I have found in trying to make this work (I did my initial work on 386BSD 0.0 and 0.1 on a Sun hosted environment because I couldn't get a machine up until the kernel had been patched in at least 3 places) was the compilation tools. GCC's idea of a hosted cross-compilation environment is orthoganal to the idea of the compiler being a system component and to the cross-compilation environment being a system instead of an application. The clearest artifact of this is the way it handles include files and the compiler having an expectation of the cross-compilation and compilation environments having the same install tree. Anything that gets done will eventaully have to reflect a special status fo the tools. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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