On Mon, 18 May 2009, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi. After a week off, another update: I've realised, too late, that I'm using a version of binutils (2.19) that's incompatible with the system binutils (2.15). Specifically, assembler code emitted by the native GNAT contains .cfi_personality directives (and no doubt other things too) that can't be processed by the system 'as'. I've got two choices now and would appreciate some advice on which to take given that I want to produce a FreeBSD port: 1. Compile binutils-2.15. Unfortunately, compiling these as cross-binutils appear to be problematic:
Hmm, if the system binutils is 2.15, then it should build as a cross. You can do a cross build of all FreeBSD - I think you just set TARGET="amd64" to build amd64 from a different arch. Part of this process should be to create a cross binutils toolset.
2. Continue to use binutils-2.19. This would appear to require me to create a binutils-2.19 port just for the GNAT compiler. Seems like it would be preferable to use the system binutils rather than to take this route...
Well, I used a newer binutils on sparc when I did the original port. Once I built the cross compiler and binutils toolset, I was done with it. After the native compiler is built using the cross tools, you should be able to rebuild the native compiler _again_ but this time with the system (amd64) binutils. -- DE _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
