Subject: Re: 14-Sep Toolchain Update
To: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au>
From: Matthias Pfaller <leo@dachau.marco.de>
List: port-pc532
Date: 09/15/1998 12:40:44
Ian Dall wrote:
> Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:
>=20
>   > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D MAIN GCC ARCHITECTURE COMPONENTS =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>=20
>   > GCC version in-tree: egcs 1.1b release with NetBSD bug-fixes and kpri=
ntf
>   > attribute additions
>=20
>   > - ns32k: Working, reported by <matthias@netbsd.org>.  Not yet default.
>=20
> Can we make this the default? Certainly I have had no problems with
> the earlier egcs 1.0.3 which I have been using by default for a long
> while now.

I was planning to switch NetBSD/pc532 to egcs in the near future. I'm just
somewhat busy (with "real" work) at the moment.

> Matthias,
>=20
> I have been slack about feeding the changes I made back to FSF and the
> egcs crowd and I understand there were a couple of extra minor changes
> needed for 1.1. We need to get these fed back otherwise we will be
> patching in perpetutity!

All my egcs changes are now in tree. Most of the stuff was done by you.
Could you please feed the stuff back to fsf/egcs folks?

>   > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D GNU BINUTILS, ASSEMBLER, AND LINKER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>=20
>   > - other a.out: The binutils are available except gas, gld, objcopy, a=
nd
>   >   strip.  See next item.
>=20
>   > - kristerw's gas/bfd additions: Added for sparc and i386, and build i=
s in
>   >   src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new ... this does not necessarily fix objcopy a=
nd
>   >   strip for these platforms.  Need m68k and ns32k support.
>=20
> For some time I have been keeping binutils up to date for the ns32k. I
> did the ns32k bfd support. HOWEVER, it doesn't have ns32k shared library
> support. I don't really understand what is necessary here. Anyone want
> to help?

Actually the changes I had to do to "our" gas to support shared libs for
the ns32k were not that big. If you would start working on fixing gas,
I'd provide any help I can.

Matthias
--=20
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