Subject: Re: Cross-building
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Michal Ludvig <michal-list@logix.cz>
List: port-amd64
Date: 10/10/2003 15:15:53
Frank van der Linden told me that:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:28:15PM +0200, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> 
>>By chance, doesn't GDB 6.0 support amd64/freebsd natively? I thought it 
>>does...
> 
> I don't know which platforms are supported by GDB 6.0.. I started out
> (quite a while ago) patching what was then gdb-current. But, gdb was
> in too much of a state of flux at that time, so I decided to use
> gdb5.3 instead. I've had working changes for gdb 5.3 for a while
> (and it is included on the ISO images I've made), but I never
> checked the changes in.
> 
> I'll have to redo the changes and feed them back for GDB 6, but that's
> not important right now.

Are NetBSD and FreeBSD very different at this level?

[gdb-6.0/gdb/NEWS]
* New native configurations.
FreeBSD/amd64               x86_64-*-freebsd*

Michal Ludvig