From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 28 12:51:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA02841 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA02836 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:51:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA03777; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:37:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703282037.NAA03777@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org (Daniel M. Eischen) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:37:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, jdp@austin.polstra.com In-Reply-To: <199703281746.LAA12697@iworks.InterWorks.org> from "Daniel M. Eischen" at Mar 28, 97 11:46:47 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is the ability to execute native FreeBSD ELF in -current or > 2.2.1-RELEASE? Or do I need the ELF kit for that? I know I > can run Linux ELF binaries, so I assume native ELF support > is there. The ABI module is in -current. I don't know about 2.2.1 release, since I haven't installed it. > I can build GNAT under Solaris as ELF for FreeBSD, so I am > just concerned with running it as ELF under FreeBSD for right > now. Once it runs as ELF under FreeBSD, I should be able > to rebuild it as a.out, right? That's the theory. It depends on what assmebler and linker features it requires. PS: I thought GNAT for a.out was already in ports... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.