Re: Cross-compiler for HURD/Alpha?

[Andrew M. Miklic]

> > Also, should anything specific need to be done to support a target
> > of a different architecture target for the HURD (i.e., alpha-gnu),
> > and if so, what?
>
> I've never tried this, but here's a quick brainstorm of pieces you
> might have to touch:
>
> 1) Gcc, to tell it that alpha-*-gnu is a valid target.  This shouldn't
> be hard, since we're just a variant of *-linux-gnu most of the time.


Does this mean that I should just be able to do, for example:

   ./configure --target=alpha-gnu

The only file I could find that seemed to actually control "*-gnu" 
targets was gcc/config.gcc (there was a documented section there which 
seemd to show what to do to support HURD-based architectures--x86 and 
mips are already supported, apparently, according to the comments and 
the configuration statements), and I tried to make the appropriate 
changes to support alpha-gnu, but configure still complains about this 
geing an unsupported target...


Sincerely,
Andrew Miklic