Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:26:13 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: witr@rwwa.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GNU binutils port Message-ID: <199604090156.LAA12317@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604081719.LAA26093@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Apr 8, 96 11:19:47 am
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Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > > gcc builds out of the box for cross compiling on FreeSBD. Since the > ports are designed to have just a make done and it works, there is no > need to have gcc as a port. The reason being that you must do some > manual configuration before the cross compilation will work. I > thought thte whole point of doing a "port" was to eliminate that. Yup. Crossing with GCC is relatively easy, but it _does_ require some manual intervention. > Also, building a cross compiler can still be a bit of a black art. It > is best done by hand because there are a number of niggling little > logistical issues that trip up people in the process. > > I think that I must be missing something here... Hmm. Dunno 8) The masters of GCC crossing can be found at http://www.cygnus.com/; they have a nice reentrant C library (newlib) that's portable to a pile of architectures as well. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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