From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 21 10:59:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70ED37B401; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:59:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6302B43E88; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:59:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0097.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.97] helo=mindspring.com) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18EwXn-0000xI-00; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:59:20 -0800 Message-ID: <3DDD2CB8.7E080912@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:58:00 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cross-Development with NetBSD References: <20021121151714.U961-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20021121.001014.56348240.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021121102050.GC81999@sunbay.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:10:14AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <20021121151714.U961-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> > > "Wilkinson,Alex" writes: > > : Is FreeBSD likely to follow the in footsteps of NetBSD and create > > : a framework to do crossbuilds ? > > : > > : http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200211/xdevnetbsd.html > > > > FreeBSD already has cross builds for a while, since before NetBSD's > > cross build infrastructure. However, NetBSD's infrastructure is a > > little more extensive because it is possible to do incremental builds > > and build full releases that work in a cross build evironment. > > What do you mean by "incremental builds and full releases that work ..."? You know, like changing one line in /usr/src/lib/libstand on a source tree on a x86 box, typing "make release", and having only the things that need to be rebuilt being rebuilt, resulting in a working FreeBSD-Alpha or FreeBSD-SPARC64 release CDROM image. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message