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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:44:41 +0200
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Subject: Alien OS (Linux) cross build support
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Hi all,

I looked at the current code, the handbook and whatever documentation I
could find on the topic, and my conclusion was that alien OS cross building
of FreeBSD is NOT supported. Is this correct? Do I need to have a FreeBSD
host to cross build for ARM or ARM64? Can I at least build part of the
system on a non-FreeBSD host?

Was/Is there any effort going on to add this to FreeBSD, NetBSD style?
Would it be easier to support first other *BSD hosts, then maybe add Linux?

Eddy