From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: port for powerpc 10 Jul 1997 08:07:43 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC8D27.18EA9900.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "olav@segovia.mit.edu" , "'Geoffrey Noer'" Original-Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Encoding: 21 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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 Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".