Unlike the unisex architecutres we've had so far, mips is bisexual.
These tools can produce either byte sex, and the compiler/make
determines the proper gender to use. Otherwise, we'd have to have had
mipsel and mipseb in all the places that we have just mips. And there
are other complications with doing that (binutils doesn't like to
build mips tools without both byte genders, it seems).
Introduced BINUTIL_ARCH so that other bisexual architectures can a
generic mechanism.
We cannot just define MACHINE_ARCH as mips because we need to
differentiate big and little endian types of binaries. Discussions on
freebsd-arch have hashed out this issue (and the parallel libc
issues). NetBSD is moving towards mipsel and mipseb for their two
flavors of mips ports (in time for 1.4, if this change hasn't already
been accomplished).
I've been building i386 worlds with this tree for a three months with
these files in place with no ill effects.
can be used to select them. The purpose of this is not necessarily to
allow another host format, but to allow us to use the objformat trickery
for cross compilation.
was already put in SRCS by the general yacc rules. Putting ldemul-list.h
in SRCS fixes races in `make -jN' when .depend hasn't been made.
Don't forget to clean ldemul-list.h.
kernel's) curproc is null. This fixes endless recursion in
xfer_umem() for attempts to read from user addresses, in particular
for attempts to read %fs and %gs from the pcb for `info reg'.
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.
