From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 13 13:53:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08098 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from set.scient.com (set.Scient.COM [208.29.209.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08086 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:53:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from enkhyl@scient.com) Received: by set.scient.com; (5.65v4.0/1.3/10May95) id AA01626; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:51:40 -0800 Received: from somewhere by smtpxd Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:52:10 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen X-Sender: enkhyl@ender.sf.scient.com Reply-To: Christopher Nielsen To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: John Birrell , John Hay , bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/obj/elf, /usr/obj/aout, /usr/obj - breaks make all vs make buildworld, and other things. Time to make elf the default In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, John Birrell wrote: > > > Since most people only care about i386 (and to a lesser extent alpha), > > I doubt that the cross-compilation issues are worth considering at this > > point. People are too ready to shoot down any new ideas. > > Anything to improve the state of cross compiling is a good thing. Anyone > who thinks otherwise is being a stick in the mud and should be ignored. I have to agree with Alfred here. With the work we're starting to do on the UltraSPARC port, better support for cross-compilation would be very beneficial. I don't see how it can really hurt anything, either. -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The eBusiness Systems Innovator cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message