Subject: Re: Remote compiles (Re: Netscape)
To: Michael R Zucca <mrz5149@cs.rit.edu>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/08/1998 13:30:40
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Michael R Zucca wrote:
> Cool! So GNU finally has the NetBSD changes built in? I tried porting the
> NetBSD compiler to work on my Linux-ppc box but it just seemed impossible.
> I thought you couldn't use straight GNU because it dind't know about the
> way NetBSD did things.

Except, as Bill noted, the linker doesn't know about NetBSD's a.out
shared libraries. I think someone either managed to get NetBSD's ld to
act as a cross-linker, or got GNU's stuff to do NetBSD's shlibs, but I
don't remember the details.

But otherwise, yeah... the stock gcc and binutils know about NetBSD :)
Hmm, actually, I think I had to add something like #define
LOCAL_LABELS_FB 1 or something like that to one of the gas config
headers (tm-m68k.h or something?) Some of the kernel source uses a style
of local labels that gas doesn't know about by default.
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