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Date:      Fri, 03 Sep 1999 17:10:23 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changes to binutils (--target=alpha-freebsd) 
Message-ID:  <199909032310.RAA48427@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:16:01 %2B0800." <199909020816.QAA19052@laurasia.com.au> 
References:  <199909020816.QAA19052@laurasia.com.au>  

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In message <199909020816.QAA19052@laurasia.com.au> Michael Kennett writes:
: In the next few days, I'll attempt to build world for the alpha target.
: I've had a (quick) dig around the /usr/src/Makefile's, and it appears that
: support for cross-compilation exists. It appears to be as simple as setting
: TARGET, and TARGET_ARCH. I'd appreciate any comments/hints on how to go
: about the build.

It is almost that simple.  However, binutils doesn't support
generating 64-bit targets with 32-bit hosts.  Until binutils does, you
are not going to make this work.

I've have some MIPS stuff that is lurking in my personal tree and need
to get back to the cross building problem.

Warner



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