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Date:      Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:00:33 -0500
From:      dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox)
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't get Linux-gdb (from ports collection) to work
Message-ID:  <19980201120033.32850@scsn.net>
In-Reply-To: <34D4A2C7.2781E494@asme.org>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 11:28:55AM -0500
References:  <19980201093839.06233@scsn.net> <199802011510.BAA00421@word.smith.net.au> <19980201102721.01931@scsn.net> <34D4A2C7.2781E494@asme.org>

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On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 11:28:55AM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Well I don't maintain the linux compiler, but I have always wanted to
> change the emulated one with a native crosscompiler. The new (BTW, could
> some just commit it ? ;-) ) crosssco uses the latest binutils, which is
> probably the cause for your problems.
> If you build the new kit with TARGET=i386-linux and replace newlib with
> the native linux libraries it might work better, and even configure
> could detect it.
> I've always wanted to change this, but
> 1) I never recieved any feedback if this was desirable.
> 2) I don't have time to hunt and package the latest linux libs.
> 3) I don't work with linux :-).

Hmmm...  I assumed that the Linux assembler was producing bogus output
because of some bug in the emulation.  It never occurred to me that the
linux-devel port just contains outdated tools.

Thanks for the pointer to crossco, BTW...



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