Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 18:16:36 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) Cc: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to binutils (--target=alpha-freebsd) Message-ID: <199909040016.SAA48672@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Sep 1999 17:06:28 PDT." <87iu5rbkvv.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> References: <87iu5rbkvv.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> <199909020816.QAA19052@laurasia.com.au> <199909032310.RAA48427@harmony.village.org>
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In message <87iu5rbkvv.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> Chris G. Demetriou writes: : I've definitely used (self-built) cross-tools on my NetBSD/i386 laptop : to build e.g. NetBSD/alpha kernels in the past. I seem to recall that : i had to tweak one or two uses of strtoul() i think it was, but other : than that it produced working results. I've had problems in the past getting working Alpha binaries produced from compilation on a i386 box. I'd been told by several people this was due to the lack of support of producing 64-bit targets on 32-bit hosts in binutils... Is that not true? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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