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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:07:49 -0800
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Simon Coggins <simon@uow.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Question about cross compiling sparc64 on i386
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:36:06PM +1100, Simon Coggins wrote:
> Does anyone have a how-to or quick instructions on how to go about
> cross compiling sparc64 world/kernel on i386. I assumed it would be as
> easy as cd /usr/src && make TARGET_ARCH=sparc64 ... 

It is that easy.

> Once it finished  the installkernel on the ultra 5 didn't work becuase
> it couldn't find some modules it was looking to install. And
> installworld failed because it didn't build the tools to install (ala
> install binary).

Error log please -- we weren't in front of your machine when this
happened.