Binutils Solaris -> HPUX Questions

[David G Oberbeck 622369]

>   In message < 200101032132.OAA05475@stamps.stortek.com >you write:
>   >    I understood that gcc as a cross for that group of targets only
>   > worked with the configuration option --with-gnu-as ; if that is not
>   > the case then what gcc configuration options should I be using?
> No.  Note that the compiler produces assembly code -- that's it's job.  
> The compiler is not a full toolchain -- it relies on having an assembler,
> linker and binary utilities for the target.
> 
> So you either need to find a way to build a cross assembler or take the
> resulting .s files and assemble them on an hpux machine.

   Yes, well, that brings us back to the initial question on the first
posting - which was how to get a cross gas for hppa-hpux, and had
anybody done this before...

   Interestingly during the configure process this is emitted:

Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnu host.
*** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
     ld
    (Any other directories should still work fine.)
<snip>

   So, that brings us back to the initial question. Has anybody
patched (probably / at least) bfd/target.c and bfd/som.c to work with
this?

   Sadly, we may have to use a commercial product to solve this
particular cross problem... I'm hoping that this is not the case. If
anybody monitoring this list has any additional suggestions / pointers
I would appreciate hearing them.

TIA,
	David