svn commit: r260022 - head/lib/libkvm

[John-Mark Gurney]

Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 18:49 -0800:
> 
> On Dec 28, 2013, at 5:08 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 23:01 +0000:
> >> Author: marcel
> >> Date: Sat Dec 28 23:01:57 2013
> >> New Revision: 260022
> >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/260022
> >> 
> >> Log:
> >>  Allow building a cross libkvm by setting TARGET_ARCH. The library so
> >>  produced will be called libkvm-${ARCH} instead of libkvm. This allows
> >>  installing it alongside the native version.
> >>  For symbol lookups, use ps_pglobal_lookup() instead of __fdnlist()
> >>  when building a cross libkvm. It is assumed that the cross tool that
> >>  uses the cross libkvm also provides an implementation for this
> >>  proc_services function.
> >> 
> >>  Note that this commit does not change any of the architecture-specific
> >>  code for cross-compilation.
> > 
> > Shouldn't we be putting cross compiled libaries in another location
> > than /lib?  Kind of like the compat32 libs?
> 
> I don't think we're there yet. libkvm is not ready for generic
> cross building and we don't really have the infrastructure for
> it either. For one, we really need to install CPU-specific
> headers on the host.
> 
> We can manually cross-build a few things, like binutils and gdb
> and I see value to extend that to kgdb, but that's about it.

Then what was the goal of this commit?  Was it to have an i386
compatible libkvm that links w/ amd64 binaries? or?

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