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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Cross compile of FreeBSD
To: ulf@Lamb.net (Ulf Zimmermann)
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> Has anyone every tried to cross compile the FreeBSD kernel or maybe even
> make world ? For example on a SGI system ?
> 
> Have here an unused challenge at the moment ;-)

I did a cross-compile of 386BSD on a SunOS system.

Making LD work and making the header files independent of the system
header files is hard (and something that should have been done a
long time ago for FreeBSD itself, but hasn't been).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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