On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:49:45PM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > I have tried to follow the instructions for building a > cross-compiler from the HURD homepage, but I tried to download the > lastest (3.0.4) instead of 2.95.2, and I can find no reference > anywhere (in the config* files, either in the 2.95.2 or the 3.0.4 > gcc source) to building the HURD as a target ($arch-gnu)--is 2.95.2 > the only distribution to contain code to cross-compile the HURD, or > should I be able to start with 3.0.4?
All of the compilers from at least 2.95 (including the 3.x series) support cross-compiling to i386-pc-gnu. Bootstrapping is hard, though. Generally noone cares to go through it enough times that it gets correctly documented. I would recommend starting with the 3.0.4 release. You can compile everything but the actual Oskit libraries with it. > Also, should anything specific need to be done to support a target > of a different architecture target for the HURD (i.e., alpha-gnu), > and if so, what? I've never tried this, but here's a quick brainstorm of pieces you might have to touch: 1) Gcc, to tell it that alpha-*-gnu is a valid target. This shouldn't be hard, since we're just a variant of *-linux-gnu most of the time. 2) Binutils. This should also be easy, since we're just a variant of *-elf. 3) Glibc already seems to recognise *-gnu* (in configure). There's already a sysdeps/mach/hurd/alpha directory, so perhaps you will be lucky here. 4) The Hurd sources apparently already run on PPC. I don't know off hand if that means that we're treating all of our pointers nicely enough that alpha can take it without any big deal. 5) *mach. Since roland made some commits to the GLibc CVS (HEAD) on 2002-04-08, this might mean that there's a Mach out there that already does what you need. 6) Mig. I've never looked at this code. Tks, Jeff Bailey _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
