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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:41:00 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cross-Development with NetBSD
Message-ID:  <20021122114100.GC11000@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021121143119.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3DDD2CB8.7E080912@mindspring.com> <XFMail.20021121143119.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:31:19PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>=20
> On 21-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 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> wr=
ites:
> >> > : 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 ..=
."?
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> Make release is a very poor example b/c make release goes to great
> efforts to create a clean-room environment for a release.  make
> rerelease is quite helpful though and does do what you want to
> restart a previous release. :)  Also, make buildworld -DNOCLEAN
> isn't too shabby, though if I could do make TARGET_ARCH=3Dalpha
> everything I would prefer that.
>=20
What would you prefer, I didn't quite understand?


Cheers,
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