On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:44:58AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Um, why? I can even cross-build any of our supported arches on the > : 4.0-RELEASE i386 box. This happens almost automatically, as part > : of the cross-arch work tasks. > > I think that there are some build tools that need a complete copy of > the byte swapping macros, just so that cross building a sparc64 > platform would work. It seems to me, and a bunch of others, that > jumping through a lot of hoops to allow cross building of sparc64 on > intel on 4.0-release isn't that interesting. imho. > For the cross-release, yes, the work isn't yet finished (when creating floppies that, last time I checked, didn't even work on sparc64, we need to byteswap the filesystem images -- there is a utility floating around, bswapfs(8), that could be used to do just this, but it was limited to FFS1 (again, last time I checked). Another cross-tool that was needed for this to work was crunchide(1):
: revision 1.263 of Makefile.inc1 : date: 2002/04/30 09:34:53; author: ru; state: Exp; lines: +2 -1 : Make crunchide(1) a cross-tool; needed for cross-arch "make release". : Note that a.out is only supported for the non-cross i386 case. For the "regular" cross-build the only tool that needed tweaking was elf2aout(1): : revision 1.282 of Makefile.inc1 : date: 2002/05/20 14:42:48; author: ru; state: Exp; lines: +5 -1 : Bootstrap elf2aout(1) for sparc64; used to build sys/boot/sparc64/boot1. (Of course, both crunchide(1) and elf2aout(1) were "fixed" to support different endianness host/target machines, for this to work.) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software AG, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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