On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, csnet wrote:

> i tried to set up a cross-compiling environment on my FreeBSD Box,but i
> got some problems.

You're probably the first to try this from FreeBSD.

> 1) gcc-2.95.2
> 
> It was declared to not fully support sparc64 architecture.!!!

That's probably true.

> 2) ld (ctr0.o)
> 
> After switching target of gcc from sparc64 to sparc i almost
> successfully compile the compiler ,but  when it tries to build native
> version of libiberty.a i got the following error:

You won't be able to execute anything native unless you have a SPARC V9
machine.  Better configure it for cross compiling.

> /disk2/cross-compile//sparc-unknown-netbsd/bin/ld: cannot open crt0.o:
> No such file or directory
> 
> I suppose it was looking for a native version of crt0.o
> But crt0.o is supposed to be compiled within gcc ... or not?
> Finally , how can i get this file?

crt0.o is not part of gcc or the toolchain.  It usually needs to be
provided by the OS or C library.  The NetBSD one is in src/lib/csu/ and
has both architecture independent and architecture dependent bits.

Eduardo Horvath