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 -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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