From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Oct 9 2:12:41 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 1C13815075 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 02:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (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 LAA07151 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:12:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA51411 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:12:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5001B15069; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 02:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.20]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA49BD; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:12:29 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA28126; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 10:49:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 10:49:02 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Eivind Eklund Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Bruce Evans , committers@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf abuse Message-ID: <19991009104902.F28001@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <199906171027.UAA03438@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <37FDFAE2.3A7E312B@newsguy.com> <19991008192943.S71340@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <19991008192943.S71340@bitbox.follo.net> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991008 20:00], Eivind Eklund (eivind@freebsd.org) wrote: >In an ideal world, we would be able to do a lot more configuring of >the build than today. In the ongoing porting of FreeBSD to other architectures, PPC, MIPS, ARM, and SPARC come to mind, we also need something which enables developers without access to either of these platforms to at least try and see if they can build this. Dare I even touch the subject of cross-compilation in association with /usr/src and it's proposed new configuration files and knobs? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Like cures like... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message