Excerpts from internet.computing.netbsd.port-pmax: 27-Oct-97 Re: Problem
during "make bu.. by Jonathan Stone@DSG.Stanf 
> Actually, could you try doing a make clean, and rerunning  config
> and remaking after applying the following patch?
>  
> It just turns on ECOFF targets as well as the default
> little- and big- endian ELF targets.  

    As far as I can tell, all the same options are defined in the
_mips.mk file in /usr/src/gnu/lib/bfd.  Is this not sufficient to build
the tools with the correct options?  If not, could some similar
(port-specific) method way of doing it be added?  I share my src tree
between three different machine architectures, so I'd rather not
configure binutils for one of them, assuming this will end up causing
problems for the other machines I build with this same tree.

    While I'm on this note, does anybody know how easy it would be to
set up cross-compiling with the sources in /usr/src using a similar
method?

    Thanks.

                                                          Will Ferry

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