[haiku-development] Re: Self-Hosting

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:47:35 +0100

On 2007-12-18 at 15:39:20 [+0100], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 2007/12/18, Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > 2007/12/18, Jérôme Duval <korli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > >
> > > > As this is already the target (i586-pc-haiku) for gcc4, the
> > > > question
> > > > would be only for gcc 2.95.
> > >
> > > Yes, of course. That's the one I'm trying to build for haiku
> > > explicitly.
> >
> > Or maybe, since this is an old toolchain, we can just stick with the
> > i586-pc-beos target ?
> 
> The BeOS-built i586-pc-beos binary should work in gcc2-built Haiku (and
> gcc4 builds as well except for C++ stuff maybe).
> Might require some tweaking on libs (bone...), but it should work.
> Some software might not like it saying it's -beos while uname returns
> Haiku (some check in configure scripts), but autocrap will have to be
> fixed to recognize Haiku anyway... Any volunteer ? I can provide the
> aspirin :)

As Axel already mentioned, I intend to re-port the tool chain, which would 
also include Perl and the auto tools.

CU, Ingo

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