Subject: Re: Toolchain support (was Re: Setting up a network adaptor)
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Bruce ONeel <beoneel@bluewin.ch>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/23/2002 11:07:01
BTW, Thanks very much for this work!

cheers

bruce

Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:37:11PM -0400, Allen Briggs wrote:
> 
>  > NetBSD will be properly supported in future toolchains.  I think the one
>  > processor/platform that's an exception now is pc532.  m68k shouldn't be
>  > a problem.  We're trying to ensure that the toolchain in NetBSD does not
>  > diverge from the gnu sources.  This was part of the motivation for moving
>  > to ELF, actually...
> 
> In fact, current GNU tools (with the exception of GDB, which I simply
> haven't gotten around to fixing yet) support NetBSD/m68k out of the
> box.  This is definitely the case for Binutils 2.12 and GCC 3.1.
> 
> -- 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
> 	... who is NetBSD host/target maintainer for GCC
> 	and GDB ...