From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 11 05:53:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA17200 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 05:53:32 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA17195 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 05:53:29 -0800 Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA01612; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 09:02:31 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199511111402.JAA01612@hda.com> Subject: Re: Compiling Linux Binaries under FreeBSD To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 09:02:30 -0500 (EST) Cc: Jerry.Kendall@vmicls.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511102136.NAA01192@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 10, 95 01:36:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1302 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > If you onlty have one machine but want to compile for both linux and freeBSD, > and you can't affort to reboot your machine (i.e. it's your mailserver etc.) > > then it makes sense it have one xterm in 'normal space' and one in 'linux space' > > where 'linux space' is a ext2fs partition(or bsd part), populated with > linux binaries, and chroot'd to.. > > certainly good for comparing how differnt tools act, checking out > the differences in the man pages, etc. etc. I think it makes sense to want to build binaries on FreeBSD for Linux, assuming the Linux emulation works well and that you like FreeBSD better and you have a dual Linux-FreeBSD project. It is also a good test for our emulation. I have a long history of cross development for various platforms, and I don't think anyone should be dissuaded from trying this. The big problem from my point of view is he will STILL need to boot "real" Linux for testing, and so will still need that Linux box or boot partition. But I'm sure that the time spent under Linux will be reduced if he had this dual build environment, not to mention his context switch time. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267