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From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary?
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Hi Peter and others,

> At some stage, we need to validate our cross-build chain with cmp(1).
> We can probably leverage off the work that NetBSD has done in this
> area.  This would significantly simplify the work involved in supporting
> the various architectures.

in case you know enough about NetBSD's build.sh, can you say if FreeBSD's
build architecture is powerful enough to merely use it with a few s///
or does it still lack one or more things ?

Thanks,
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Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >