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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:50:11 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cross compilation goals.
Message-ID:  <199911232250.XAA44855@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <99Nov24.080748est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Nov 24, 1999  8:14:34 am"

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As Peter Jeremy wrote ...
> On 1999-Nov-24 06:16:56 +1100, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >> I've just read the rest of the thread, and need to amplify the non
> >> goal and state it as follows:
> >> 
> >> 	1) It will not necessarily be a goal of this effort to produce a
> >> 	   FreeBSD source tree that can be compiled on a non-FreeBSD
> >> 	   system.  You will not necessarily be able to build a FreeBSD
> >> 	   system on a Solaris system, for example.
> >
> >
> >I think it would have been very useful to the Alpha porting effort
> >if it had been possbile to build FreeBSD on DEC UNIX.
> 
> I'm not sure that being able to FreeBSD/alpha on DEC UNIX would help
> any more than being able to build FreeBSD/alpha on FreeBSD/i386.
> (Though at the time, I gather neither worked correctly).
> 
> That said, my recent attempts to install FreeBSD on a Multia would
> have be significantly simpler if I could have built netboot on
> DEC UNIX.

It would even be more practical if netboot were built by default.
Which it was not until recently.. (dfr enabled it on 11/03 I just
noticed ;-)

> two compilers?  I found that (contrary to my expectations) gcc 2.8.1
> was better than the DU cc for md5(1) and related tools.

Hmm. Speed freaks could KAP-ify on DUNIX, that might be an asset.

Wilko
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