From: Robert Zubek Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: recompiling binutils Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 18:07:31 -0600 Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Lines: 26 Message-ID: <34D7B142.FB4D5A15@cs.nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: robzilla.res-hall.nwu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk hey, so, i decided to recompile djgcc, to make it a dos->mips crosscompiler, and seem to be running into slight glitches. when running configure.bat (--host=i386-pc-msdosdjgpp --target=mips-mips-elf) everything goes smoothly, until it reaches GAS - it then stops saying that it does not have support for 'CPU mips' and 'object format elf'. i checked, and the script comes to that conclustion by checking that files gas/config/tc-mips.c and gas/config/obj-elf.c don't exist - so i thought i'd 'fix' that by copying those and their associated header files from the original gnu binutil distribution. however crude, that seem to have worked, but since i won't be able to run the recompiled binutils anytime soon, i was wondering - would this quick hack work, or am i shooting myself in the foot by mixing source files? is there a different way of giving it mips/elf support? thanks! rob -- ** please remove '-spam' from my email address before replying, ** ** or your message will be fed to /dev/null **