From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 19 12:42:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15732 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:42:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15688; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:42:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA19817; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 06:52:11 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199801191952.GAA19817@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: elf and -current In-Reply-To: <199801191934.LAA06191@gonzo.wolfenet.com> from Timothy Moore at "Jan 19, 98 11:34:34 am" To: moore@WOLFENET.com (Timothy Moore) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 06:52:11 +1100 (EST) Cc: garbanzo@hooked.net, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Timothy Moore wrote: > I managed to build egcs as a cross compiler, following the > instructions in the elfkit's README. I used binutils-2.8. I had to > hide the limits.h in egcs' privite include directory in order to > compile libc; BSD defines some Posix constants in there that aren't in > the GNU version. FWIW, work is in progress to import binutils-2.8 into -current. This is needed for the alpha. Since the alpha is ELF, it has been decided that now is a good time to add ELF support to -current for i386 too. Regards, -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137