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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linux-devel port just contains outdated tools.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...