From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: Crosscompiling Linux under Ultrix? Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 17:48:49 GMT
In article <YOUKI.92Oct24003422@aistgw.rd.ecip.osaka-u.ac.jp>, youki@rd.ecip.osaka-u.ac.jp (Youki Kadobayashi) writes:
|>
|> >>>>> On 21 Oct 92 20:17:29 GMT, hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) said:
|>
|> > Get binutils-1.9l.tar.Z and gas-1.38.1l.tar.Z under pub/linux/GCC/src on
^^^^^^^^^
|> > tsx-11.
|>
|> binutils-2.0 works just fine. "gnu-ld-patches" is no longer necessary.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> You must hack "ld/configure.in" a bit. It was relatively easy to build
|> a cross compiler on Sun IPX with SunOS4.
|>
|> > They only work with little endian machine, like decstation.
|>
|> I think difference of byte order does no harm. My gcc-i386-bsd on a
|> SPARC (which is BIG endian, I believe) works like charm. I built libc.a,
|> make, ls etc., and they indeed works fine.
|>
1.9 doesn't support different byte order. But binaries of 2.0 is 10 times bigger than 1.9.
|> I have built gcc-i386-linux on sun4-sunos4, but I haven't tried to run
|> cross-compiled binaries on Linux; because Linux doesn't recognize
|> embedded SCSI hard disk in my Sony PCX-300 (PC compatible).
|>
|> BTW: how can I get the sources of /bin/*, /usr/bin/* ..?
|> I'd like to recompile them with jumptable 4.1.
|>
|> --
|> Youki Kadobayashi <youki@rd.ecip.osaka-u.ac.jp>
|> Information Network Architecture Lab.
|> Department of Information and Computer Sciences
|> Osaka University, Japan
H.J.