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From: Pedro Giffuni <m230761@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co>
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> 
> 
> Hmm, so if I were to be able to talk a commercial app builder who had an app 
> for SunOS to do the compile on a FBSD computer odds are that it might work?  
> That is an idea...
>
Sometimes it is as simple but it's usually not the case. Another option 
is cross-compiling, Cygnus just released "newlib" (a BSD-like public C 
Library and some cross compiling patches for gcc. I will by trying to 
port cross compilers for the environments we emulate.

Pedro.

> -Sean
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