On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:09:08AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > 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? AFAIK, binutils can only support one architecture per invocation of configuration scripts. I.e., you cannot have one gas binary that would provide both i386-elf and hppa-som targets. Correct me, if I'm wrong.
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