From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 23 23:38:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0654E14C8E for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:38:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA26409 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:38:07 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id IAA32557 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:38:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF8914C8E for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:37:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id IAA14544; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:05:45 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA44855; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:50:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199911232250.XAA44855@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Cross compilation goals. In-Reply-To: <99Nov24.080748est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Nov 24, 1999 8:14:34 am" To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:50:11 +0100 (CET) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, arch@freebsd.org X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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