On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Edwin Foo wrote:
> 
> : I don't have an ARM-based machine to start developing on, so the
> : cross-compiler is really my only way out to get my project bootstrapped.
> : 
> : In particular, I'm trying to start from -current/i386 (dated 10/1/98), and
> : I have a current snapshot of egcs. Should I also get binutils from gnu? And
> : is arm-unknown-netbsd a valid target? And what is getassym and is relavence
> : to kernel builds?
> 
> FYI, you can get a cross-compiler that produces _static_ binaries as we're
> still working on the support to make dynamically linked or shared binaries
> in a cross linker.

Erm I have a cross linker that appears to work ok on dynamic binaries ...
It was not something that I just typed make to build though ;-)

> mark@netbsd.org or neil@netbsd.org will probably chime in now with the
> information on patches you can use against the out of the box GNU binutils.
Use neil@causality.com as neil@netbsd.org is Neil McRae.

Cheers,
				Mark