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andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au wrote:
>There have been a number of questions about cross-compiling, with
>the most common case being host=sparc target=sun3. We have had
>this configuration operational for a long time, and I thought I
>would give a brief rundown on the way I put it together.
>[...]
>One interesting thing to try would be to build GNU libc 1.03 with
>this environment and see if you could get a complete cross
>compilation system - I haven't had the time to try this.

I've done this, and it works like a charm.  I've compiled many things
for the sun3 (all of the GNU *utils packages) on a sparc using this
method.  Build them, then just FTP the binaries over and voila, they
work.

>The trickiest bit is the loader. I am not aware if the binutils-1.94
>stuff works OK, but the loader we run here was obtained from
>sprite.berkeley.edu, under cross-ld (or a similar name).

However, I used the GNU ld that's in the binutils 1.94 distribution.

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