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Date:      Tue, 2 Feb 1999 19:49:51 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        imp@village.org, jin@george.lbl.gov, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alpha-2100 server support
Message-ID:  <199902021849.TAA00791@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9902021019230.10768-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Feb 2, 99 10:21:43 am"

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As Doug Rabson wrote...
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > In message <199902012201.XAA02931@yedi.iaf.nl> Wilko Bulte writes:
> > : I'm guessing, but I think Freebsd/axp started off by building things 
> > : under NetBSD/axp and not using OSF-1 ehh, D-Unix, eeh True64 Unix (or
> > : whatever it is called these days).
> > 
> > Kinda.  I did try to make FreeBSD/alpha build under OSF-1, but there
> > were many problems.  It could be done, but needed many compatibility
> > routines to make it even a remote possibility.  I punted.  This was
> > before John Birrell's heroic efforts, however.

I tried building Netbsd/axp once under D-Unix 3.something. I quickly
let go of that idea back then.

> > One could likely get FreeBSD/alpha building on osf-1 (assuming hand
> > built build tools) if the cross building support for FreeBSD was a
> > little better.  It isn't an out of the box thing, as far as I know.
> 
> If all you are building is a kernel, life is a *lot* easier.  Building a
> userland is hard though; I'm eternally grateful for John's NetBSD

Hear hear!

> cross-build solution it made my life so much easier when I was first
> bootstrapping a native FreeBSD/alpha system.

Wilko
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