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From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
To: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Compiling 4-RELEASE on 5-STABLE
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:31:33PM +0530, Subhro wrote:
> >        What about my question about boot strapping? Does that ensure that
> > I could compile the world/kernel of 4.x on 5.3?
> >                John
> No it does not. To be precise as far as I know, there is no way you
> can compile a native 4.X binary of any kind (application, kernel,
> bootstrap, you name it) on a 5.X box. Although you CAN run native 4.X
> [...] 

As a side note, with NetBSD you CAN do this.  You can even compile
NetBSD/vax on a Linux/ppc box. :-)  That's how they build releases for
their obscurer architectures all the time.  

GH

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