1 $NetBSD: README,v 1.4 2009/12/13 09:27:57 mrg Exp $
4 Building multi- ABI libraries for NetBSD platforms.
7 src/compat has a framework to (re)build the libraries shipped with
8 NetBSD for a different ABI than the default for that platform. This
9 allows 32-bit libraries for the amd64 and sparc64 ports, and enables
10 the mips64 port to support all three of old-style 32-bit ("o32"), the
11 new 32-bit (default, "n32", 64-bit CPU required) or the 64-bit ABI.
14 The basic premise is to re-set $MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX to fresh subdirectory
15 underneath src/compat and rebuild the libraries with a different set
16 of options. Each platform wanting support should create their port
17 subdirectory directly in src/compat, and then one subdirectory in here
18 for each ABI required. e.g., src/compat/amd64/i386 is where we build
19 the 32-bit compat libraries for the amd64 port. In each of these
20 subdirs, a small Makefile and makefile fragment should exist. The
21 Makefile should set BSD_MK_COMPAT_FILE to equal the fragment, and then
22 include "../../Makefile.common". Eg, amd64/i386/Makefile has:
24 BSD_MK_COMPAT_FILE=${.CURDIR}/bsd.i386.mk
26 .include "../../Makefile.common"
28 In the makefile fragment any changes to ABI flags are passed here
29 and the MLIBDIR variable must be set to the subdirectory in /usr/lib
30 where libraries for the ABI will be installed. There are a couple of
31 helper Makefiles around. amd64/i386/bsd.i386.mk looks like:
35 LIBC_MACHINE_ARCH= ${MLIBDIR}
36 COMMON_MACHINE_ARCH= ${MLIBDIR}
37 KVM_MACHINE_ARCH= ${MLIBDIR}
38 PTHREAD_MACHINE_ARCH= ${MLIBDIR}
39 BFD_MACHINE_ARCH= ${MLIBDIR}
40 CSU_MACHINE_ARCH= ${MLIBDIR}
41 CRYPTO_MACHINE_CPU= ${MLIBDIR}
42 LDELFSO_MACHINE_CPU= ${MLIBDIR}
44 .include "${NETBSDSRCDIR}/compat/Makefile.m32"
46 and the referenced Makefile.m32 looks like:
54 .include "Makefile.compat"
57 Makefile.common holds the list of subdirectories (the libraries and
58 ld.elf_so) to build with this ABI.
60 Makefile.md_subdir holds the list of subdirectories for each port.
62 Makefile.compat has the basic framework to force the right paths for
63 library and ld.elf_so linkage. It contains a hack to create subdirs
64 in the build that should be fixed.
66 dirshack/Makefile is a hack to get objdirs created timely, and should
67 be fixed in a better way.