> 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.
> -- 
> Name: Dave Huang     |   Mammal, mammal / their names are called /
> INet: khym@bga.com   |   they raise a paw / the bat, the cat /
> FurryMUCK: Dahan     |   dolphin and dog / koala bear and hog -- TMBG


There is a document on www.macbsd.com talking about cross-compiling by
Markus Hitter <M.Hitter@trier.fh-rpl.de>, maybe it needs little
refreshing? I have not tried to setup cross-compilation environment
yet, I am only thinking about it now and I would love to have all
hacks and non-usual changes spelled out.

	Taras Ivanenko.