Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 15:14:44 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross compilation goals. Message-ID: <199912022214.PAA05564@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:14:34 %2B1100." <99Nov24.080748est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <99Nov24.080748est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> <199911182348.QAA28898@harmony.village.org> <199911231916.MAA03270@usr06.primenet.com>
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In message <99Nov24.080748est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> Peter Jeremy writes: : I'm not sure that being able to FreeBSD/alpha on DEC UNIX would help : any more than being able to build FreeBSD/alpha on FreeBSD/i386. : (Though at the time, I gather neither worked correctly). : : That said, my recent attempts to install FreeBSD on a Multia would : have be significantly simpler if I could have built netboot on : DEC UNIX. Yes. It is a much harder to do a cross build on Digital unix. I've tried in the past and have found that there are lots and lots of functions that are used that need a helper library which doesn't exist on dux. That's why I put the don't try for the non freebsd system initially. It complicates things quite a bit. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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