Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:09:35 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Cc: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, delphij@delphij.net, developers@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary? Message-ID: <20051025170934.GA29561@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051025004757.GH14063@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20051023105230.GA55181@frontfree.net> <20051023232935.GC602@dragon.NUXI.org> <20051024080811.GF39882@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20051025004757.GH14063@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:47:57AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > 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 ? I expect it's pretty different. ru@ did a lot of work on cross-building FreeBSD though, and he had a fairly detailed list of known differences between cross-built and native builds. I'm not sure if he reduced it to 0 length. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDXmbOWry0BWjoQKURAi4oAJ0XkYOWewesxcz0rziVaYWa8r0RBQCfQDOB /+WAtJO3n32fgmdwWPwnDnE= =1CWW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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