From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 2 14:20:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8031C14BD7 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 14:20:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA20971 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:19:25 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA85780 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:19:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C84F715099 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 14:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA19402; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:14:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA05564; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:14:45 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199912022214.PAA05564@harmony.village.org> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Subject: Re: Cross compilation goals. Cc: Terry Lambert , arch@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:14:34 +1100." <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> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 15:14:44 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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