From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 23 18:57:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id BA4781505C; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:57:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0B51CD671; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:57:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:57:13 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Terry Lambert Cc: Jay Nelson , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Cross-Compilation (Was Re: IBM (Was: Re: funny repair remark)) In-Reply-To: <200001220101.SAA24201@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Right now, both FreeBSD (especially) and Linux have hosted > cross-compilation issues, having to do with using tools generated > for the target in building the target (instead of using cross-tools > targeted at the target but built for the host for building the > target). This was a matter of much discussion a while back. I believe this is either no longer true, or will be no longer true in the near future. Marcel Moolenaar has been doing a lot of work restructuring the build process to allow cross-compilation. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message