gas for each target format. So for m68k targets that means several
gases. I wanted a m68k gas for VxWorks which uses aout in sun3 big
endian format, cross compiled on i386 under FreeBSD using libraries
supplied by DEC and intended by them for cross compilation on Alpha
under OSF/1. And it actually works!
support more than one architecture at a time, build as from the
default for the host and if CROSS_TOOLS defines other architectures,
build them as as_${arch}
are now included according to the cross-architecture support required,
default the BINDIR for i386 to /usr/libexec/elf here instead of in
all the i386 specific makefiles. For all other architectures, BINDIR
is just /usr/bin.
be defined (in /etc/make.conf, say) and set to the additional architectures
that need to be compiled in. So on alpha I set CROSS_TOOLS = i386.
On i386 you can't build alpha due to lack of 64-bit support on 32-bit
architectures, but that's a GNU problem.
This change relies on makefiles in the binutils sub-directories having
the extension defined in the CROSS_TOOLS, instead of those makefiles
being selected based on the host architecture.
worked because .ORDER prevented problems from concurrent generation
of multiple parsers (and their headers), and there were no missing
dependencies because the generated headers were not actually used.
requires the new file.
Fixed stale near-copy of contrib/libreadline/doc/hsuser.texinfo. Patch
it at build ntime, and only keep the patch for it here.
Don't keep a copy of contrib/gdb/gdb/doc/all-cfg.texi here. Link to it
at build time.
be worth much effort. Install all i386 binutils programs in
"/usr/libexec/elf". Disable a.out support in libbfd. It's too
dangerous to leave it in. Some of the utilities think they can
handle a.out, but they generate bad object files.
the binutils headers for (machine)-unknown-freebsdelf.
Also copy the bfd.h header to an architecture specific directory
because there are two fundamental lines that differ (32-bit vs 64-bit)
between i386 and alpha.
The config.h for libbinutils generates the same on alpha as i386,
so I didn't change that (though I was tempted!).
support building it for variant architectures. It was already
becoming clear that the former structure was too rigid and didn't
scale well.
The usual sort of makefile magic arranges to .include an architecture
specific makefile "Makefile.${MACHINE_ARCH}" in each directory
where it exists. Also, sources will be found in each subdirectory
"${MACHINE_ARCH}" that exists. This is all taken care of automatically
by the top level "Makefile.inc0".
This all seems to work right for the i386 now. I have also converted
those alpha pieces already present to the new schema as best I
could.
Also: change the BINDIR on the i386 to /usr/libexec/elf for "ar"
and "ranlib". They are not object format independent enough to
put into /usr/bin.
strip program (via "install") to strip itself. But the program
wasn't executable because "install" hadn't made it so yet. I
borrowed the method used for the old strip to get around this.
This finishes up the binutils import. But I am leaving it disabled
in "src/gnu/usr.bin/Makefile" for now. It is not used by anything
yet, so I'll take this opportunity to run one more round of tests
before enabling it.
