> >I'm attempting to set up automated nightly builds of -current.. from a
> >cross-compiling environment. My initial target is to build -current on a 1.4.2
> >host.
> 
> First off: hurray! This is important work for slow arches and for new ports.
> 
> Now: how does your cross-compiler find its headers? If it takes _anything_
> from /usr/include then it's going to have problems. We should be compiling
> with "-nostdinc -I$(BSDSRCDIR)/xinclude" and have 'make includes' install
> into $(BSDSRCDIR)/xinclude. $(DESTDIR)/usr/include should get updated at
> 'make install' time, not 'make includes' time.
> 
> (I would have preferred $(BSDSRCDIR)/include, but that's already taken.)
> 
> I believe that when a kernel is updated, no headers should need to change
> (those that do probably shouldn't have been made visible to userland in the
> first place). Building and installing libc & friends will install the new
> interfaces along with the binaries that export them.
> 
> Most likely we have some gnarly header dependencies in the current system
> that won't be handled well by this model. I have faith that they can be
> reorganized without unacceptable pain.

I actually got the binutils and egcs compiled on my FreeBSD 4.0 i386 machine.
However, the aout and ELF images aren't recognisable on the vax.

The only difficulties I had were with bfd's definitions of the following
	TARGET_PAGE_SIZE
	TEXT_START_ADDR

My understanding is that the vax port uses 4k pages (from what file(1) 
indicates from objects there).  However, from simple putzing, I've determined
that the only object format I can make NetBSD/vax recognise is by setting
both of these to 4128.  4096, for example makes the object unrecognisable
to file(1) on the vax.

I'll admit flighty ignorance on how binutils/bfd deals with and treats these
settings.  

Can anyone who has deal with the compiler port, or worked on a anything-to-
NetBSD/vax suggest anything here?

Thanks,
-skots
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