Re: cross-compiling and other joys of life

[Bill Studenmund <skippy%macro.stanford.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > Is there interest in a whole slew of cross-compiling-related improvements
> > and utilities?  I've been pounding on this stuff for a while...for
> > instance, bin/sh compiles three helper programs using whatever the CC in
> > the path may happen to be.  This causes problems, obviously.  I may be
> > undergoing the monstrous task of converting all of those as I go along -
> > I'm trying to make myself a ppc snapshot.
> > 
>       Assuming they are MI (will work between any two platforms) then
>       there are a lot of people who would be interested (starting with
>       NetBSD/vax owners and working through various m68k ports :)

I've gotten together a set of patches which let me cross-compile mac68k on
my i386. They include patches to sh, a number of games, a patch to
bsd.lib.mk to make it deal with DESTDIR'd libraries right, patches to not
compile tn3270 and xlint (tn3270 needs more patches to xcompile and xlint
crashed my xcompiler :-( ), and fairly massive changes to get gcc to be
cross-compilable.

I'll try to get them on ftp.netbsd.org later today.

Take care,

Bill