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RE: port for powerpc
- To: "olav at segovia dot mit dot edu" <olav at segovia dot mit dot edu>, "'Geoffrey Noer'" <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: port for powerpc
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:47:50 +0400
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
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Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> You may be able to build yourself a powerpcle-cygwin32 native
> toolchain by starting on a Linux box, doing a configure with
> --target=powerpcle-cygwin32, running the make and install.
> Then do another configure with --build=i486-linux
--host=powerpcle-cygwin32
> --target=powerpcle-cygwin32 and see what happens. If this all
> succeeds you'd have a native powerpcle-cygwin32 toolchain.
>
> This was not tested for the beta 17-18 releases so this might
> not go smoothly.
Exception/signal support in exceptions.cc is completely broken for ppc
version. PPC call_handler should be modified according to new
arguments/semantics like i386 version. There should not be other
incompatibilities in winsup sources.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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