Subject: Re: cross-compiling and /src/gnu/dist
To: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/22/1998 13:15:47
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Castor Fu wrote:
> Along the lines of cross compilation, both bsd.links.mk and bsd.kinc.mk
> have explicit references to 'make' rather than '${MAKE}'. Seems like a
> bug to me, but I thought I'd check and see if anyone else thinks so.
Probably is.
> I've been cross-compiling NetBSD/mips from FreeBSD using the in-tree
> GNU tools, and just running 'configure'. I think the most annoying
> glitch is having to re-touch the autoconf generated files. Programs
> which I build from NetBSD for the crossare:
>
> config
> make
> test
> lorder
> mtree
> rpcgen
You need these just because of differences between NetBSD and FreeBSD, no?
> and I have a wrapper for 'strip' so it works on both the mips and x86
> executables.
The freebsd strip doesn't honor $STRIP? Oh well.
Take care,
Bill