Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:58:00 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cross-Development with NetBSD Message-ID: <3DDD2CB8.7E080912@mindspring.com> References: <20021121151714.U961-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20021121.001014.56348240.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021121102050.GC81999@sunbay.com>
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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" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> 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
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