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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!trantor.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: GNU software for 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Oct28.003559.3424@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <2521@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 00:35:59 GMT Lines: 35 In article <2521@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> gt@prosun.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski) writes: >Is there anybody out there trying to build the 'binutils-2.0'? >The same question about 'gas-1.92.3'. I try to configure it with >something like --host=i386-386bsd-bsd, but it seems that the >GNU project didn't work with this kind of OS. sh configure i386-none-bsd This won't actually work for the current binutils, BUT... Grab GDB 4.7. This includes the latest version of binutils, which includes 386bsd support. Then move the `ld' and `binutils' directories over into the GDB hierarchy. Now you can configure for i386-none-bsd. This should allow you to make the binutils. (Note that I didn't actually do this; I independently ported the BFD as a part of a project that I'm working on. I have looked at GDB 4.7, however.) >This is something >I do not understand. First they are waiting for a free OS, and >then they don't use it. They are *writing* a Free (with a capital F) OS. And keep in mind that the development of the development tools (except gcc) is mostly done by Cygnus, which seems to be making quite a lot of money off it (good for them!), as opposed to the FSF proper. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant