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Re: Issues with building a sparcv9 (64bit sparc) GDB...
- To: Roland Mainz <Roland dot Mainz at informatik dot med dot uni-giessen dot de>
- Subject: Re: Issues with building a sparcv9 (64bit sparc) GDB...
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 06 Dec 1999 10:42:17 -0500
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <384B29EE.B4C05A1A@informatik.med.uni-giessen.de>
This message would have been more appropriate for
gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com. bug-gdb is for bug reports.
There has already been some work done in this area. You should get in
touch with Chitti Raju <chitti@wipinfo.soft.net>, who has got some
of this working already.
> Hi !
>
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> I'll keep this message short because I don't whether someone reads this
> or not (I don't like to chat with /dev/null =:-)
>
> I'd like to create a sparcv9 package for Solaris 2.7 SPARC. "sparcv9" is
> the 64bit sparc architecture which has some differences from 32bit
> sparc:
> - host id would be "sparcv9-sun-solaris2.7" or "sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8"
> - short=16bit, int=32bit, long=64bit
> - 64bit shared libraries are located in
> {name-of-32bit-lib-dir}/sparcv9/, e.g. /usr/lib/sparcv9/ or
> /usr/openwin/lib/sparcv9/
> The last issue is the one which prevents me to build a sparcv9-GDB, the
> "configure" script looks into /usr/lib/ instead of /usr/lib/sparcv9/ ;-(
>
> It would be nice to forward this email to the current maintainer(s) of
> the (sparc) src...
>
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> Bye,
> Roland
>
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