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by **Klaus-Georg Ada** » Tue, 22 Jun 1993 03:30:36

Hey, Linuxers

As I'm pretty tight on disk space, I'd like to abuse my IBM RS6000
Workstation (running AIX 3.2.3e) to compile the Linux Stuff.
I can use gas 2.1.1 as cross-assembler, but the Gnu Linker frome the
binutils-2.2.1 distribution won't configure with --target=i486-linux.
Now two questions:

1. will it link my linux stuff just the same, or

2. does anybody know of an alternative cross-linker for the RS6000?

Any help appreciated.

by **Matthias Urlic** » Tue, 22 Jun 1993 15:26:04

Quote:
> I am working on binutils 2.2.1. I don't know when I will finish
> it.

Any chance that these changes will find their way back into the "main"
binutils distribution?

The same question applies to libc.

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by **a..** » Tue, 22 Jun 1993 21:18:35

>If RS6000 is little endian like ix86, you can use stuff under
>pub/linux/packages/GCC/src on tsx-11.mit.edu.

From what I have seen, RS/6000 is big endian, ie. "the other way round".
I have been trying to write a "portable" IFF-ILBM bitmap reader, I got
it working on my PC under DOS (yuck!) so when I came here I though an
IBM RS/6k would use the same format as an IBM PC. My program tells me
it doesn't...

Andrew.

>H.J.

by **Thomas Eberhar** » Thu, 24 Jun 1993 08:56:11

>>If RS6000 is little endian like ix86, you can use stuff under
>>pub/linux/packages/GCC/src on tsx-11.mit.edu.
>From what I have seen, RS/6000 is big endian, ie. "the other way round".

Ok... I've played a bit with gas-1.38.1l, binutils-1.9l, and tools-2.7
and hacked them (I think the things I've done are relatively clean) to
work on our SGI systems (big-endian). If anybody wants the patches just
e-mail me. One caveat: The utilities seem to produce correct output
(I've used a gcc cross-compiler to compile/assemble/link some small
programs using shared and static libraries) but I can't test the output
on a real Linux box since I still don't have one......
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