Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:57:46 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> Cc: jdp@austin.polstra.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils Message-ID: <199703281557.QAA06713@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: deischen's message of Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:00:46 -0600. <199703280100.TAA07336@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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> > > I also noted that another recognized target is i386-unknown-freebsdelf > > > which JDP added support for. > > > > That one works fine, but it's for playing around with ELF rather than > > building real FreeBSD binaries. > > Hmm. What's the status of our ELF support? Can I just use the > ELF version and make a cross development system for FreeBSD > ELF binaries? I assume we're going to have native ELF support > some time in the future, so if there was a patch kit to 2.2.1 > (or even 3.0) I could live with that. > > > If you want a cross environment to FreeBSD, your easiest path is > > probably to port the old assembler and linker from our /usr/src tree. > > Will try to do that. > On a related note, can anyone tell me if I can use objcopy to change Linux (static) elf libraries into FreeBSD libraries? If not, is there an alternative? Regards, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------
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