weird limitation on the system's binutils

[Mikhail Teterin]

Hello!

I'm wondering, why the bfd and related bits and pieces of binutils are built 
to support only the architecture(s), that can natively run on the system?

Why can't I use gdb or objdump on FreeBSD/i386 to analyze a core file, or a 
binary from another FreeBSD or even from a non-FreeBSD system?

The tools themselves support that. The sources (bfd-vectors) for all other 
supported architectures are part of the tree (under contrib/). So, why not 
build them?

If it really is SO much of a bloat, why do we install gdb, etc. in the first 
place?

	-mi

P.S. What I also want is the /lib/libbfd.so and friends, so I (and the 15 
devel/*binutils ports) can build my own tools linking with it. Unfortunately, 
that too remains impossible...