From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31367 invoked by alias); 8 Dec 2007 13:05:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 31353 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Dec 2007 13:04:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from server265-han.de-nserver.de (HELO server265-han.de-nserver.de) (85.158.176.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:04:50 +0000 Received: (qmail 10571 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2007 14:04:36 +0100 Received: from 84-75-162-66.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO linux2.krischik.com) (84.75.162.66) (smtp-auth username martinka, mechanism plain) by server265-han.de-nserver.de (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTPA; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:04:35 +0100 Received: from linux2.krischik.com (linux2.krischik.com [192.168.0.2]) by linux2.krischik.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97166184B8C9 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:50:32 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Krischik To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GMP and MPFR (Was: GCC does not build gfortran !!) Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:05:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) References: <765852.6744.qm@web51303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200712080902.41508.krischik@users.sourceforge.net> <475A519F.34C2FD07@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <475A519F.34C2FD07@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1405205.obonubCtBH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200712081350.28405.krischik@users.sourceforge.net> X-User-Auth: Auth by martinka through 84.75.162.66 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00175.txt.bz2 --nextPart1405205.obonubCtBH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 989 Am Samstag 08 Dezember 2007 schrieb Brian Dessent: > Martin Krischik wrote: > > And another thing just struck me: We from the Ada community use cross > > compilers for embedded targets a lot. Targets which might not even have > > an operating system. How is this supposed to work in future? > > > > Or not quite a drastic: Cross compiling on Windows for VMS. Do GMP and > > MPFR cross compile for VMS. Do they compile for VMS at all. Or for > > Symbian to name a new and hip OS for contrast. > > They're host libraries, not target libraries. They don't have to build > for the target system. They are used by gcc itself, not by code that > gcc creates. So Cross compiling on Windows/Linux for VMS won't be the optional extra in= =20 future but the only possibility. Or does GMP and MPFR compile on VMS? I understand that you defend your decision but nevertheless it is a blow to= =20 any non mainstream platform. Martin --=20 Martin Krischik mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net --nextPart1405205.obonubCtBH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-length: 194 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHWpMUijwKaHyem9cRAh4yAJ90CxCO1TCen8P/G5MF4HepVfxTZwCgsc79 KL5pN7R0YbPHWaXaBvKoUUI= =cwS8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1405205.obonubCtBH--