Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:04:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interest in a linux_crossdev port? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961022010050.466B-100000@hamby1> In-Reply-To: <199610230447.OAA24090@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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I'd very much like to see that. If nothing else, it would make creating a native FreeBSD port of GNAT (GNU Ada compiler) a bit easier to bootstrap from the corresponding Linux version (GNAT is written in Ada so it's a real Catch-22 trying to port it!). I have patches from the i386-NetBSD version of GNAT (using pthreads), I just haven't had time to try them yet on FreeBSD. Anyway, I may end up not needing a linux_crossdev port to bootstrap GNAT, but it certainly can't hurt! Go for it! -- Jake On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > Ok, we currently have the 'linux_lib' package, which is quite suitable for > people who want to run Lunix binaries. > > However setting up tools to build Linux binaries is a Right Royal pain, > made no easier at all by the crap they call "distributions". > > Is it felt that there's some interest in a package that would put all > the bits in more-or-less the right place? Obviously, this isn't going > to track their patch-of-the-hour environment, but if we base it on the > same release as the 'linux_lib' package, people should have a fairly > consistent environment to work with. > > I've just gone through the horror involved here, and I thought it might > be good to do this before it all fades away again. Any advice (erich?) > would be appreciated... > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > >
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