Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:53:24 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> 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: <5C67568C-389D-4023-9076-DC2E1608D187@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20131229033245.GY99167@funkthat.com> References: <201312282301.rBSN1wWP002326@svn.freebsd.org> <20131229010848.GV99167@funkthat.com> <7F0C4872-DB2A-4E6B-A8B8-E366989312C5@xcllnt.net> <20131229033245.GY99167@funkthat.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_134EE2E7-477A-4012-85C1-097B83F89B11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Dec 28, 2013, at 7:32 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > 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? The goal was to get a step closer to having useful cross-tools, including those that need libkvm. In this case it allowed me to make an ia64 cross-kgdb, useful for core analysis and/or remote debugging. -- Marcel Moolenaar marcel@xcllnt.net --Apple-Mail=_134EE2E7-477A-4012-85C1-097B83F89B11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAlK/nLQACgkQpgWlLWHuifZx7gCbBnY6wJFFR2GGJr78OY1MPZAK MlYAn3bQQ+q/HU4ZALegoluqaZiEMYGW =FkZa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_134EE2E7-477A-4012-85C1-097B83F89B11--
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