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 _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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