Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 20:44:21 -0800 From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org Subject: Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils Message-ID: <199703290444.UAA00995@hamby1>
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> From deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org Fri Mar 28 20:23:38 1997 > Not having GNAT is one of the big roadblocks in our making heavier > use out of FreeBSD. I _really_ want to get this built. If you are seriously interested in GNAT, then you may want to try bootstrapping it from a working NetBSD or Linux version. In fact, I was once able to get an older version of GNAT working in FreeBSD using the Linux version running in FreeBSD's binary emulation mode as a bootstrap! It seemed to work okay, but failed one of the floating-point demo programs, so I gave up. Of course, now GNAT is a more complicated program to bring up, because you'll need to test the tasking support against FreeBSD's implementation of POSIX threads, and patch gnatbl to link with "-nostdlib -lc_r" instead of the nonthread-safe C library. Which makes it an even more worthwhile project, because it has the potential to shake out any bugs lurking in our threads library. :) Cheers, Jake
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