From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 11 14:23: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from maxim.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.24.22.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41DC237B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:22:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb@gbch.net) Received: (qmail 58247 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Jul 2001 07:22:56 +1000 Message-ID: X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.21 16-Jun-2001 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:22:55 +1000 From: Greg Black To: bmah@packetdesign.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Development for older FreeBSD releases References: <200107112113.f6BLDgQ81686@nimitz.packetdesign.com> In-reply-to: <200107112113.f6BLDgQ81686@nimitz.packetdesign.com> of Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:13:36 MST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce A. Mah wrote: | I need to make an executable to run on an i386 box running FreeBSD 2.2.X | machine. Unfortunately, it has no compiler installed on it. All of the | computers I have at my disposal currently are i386s running 4-STABLE or | 5-CURRENT. Upgrading the target machine is not an option. | | Is it even possible to try doing a "cross-compile" to such an old | version of FreeBSD? (I'm primarily thinking of a.out vs. ELF issues...a | quick experiment already informed me that I'm lacking an appropriate | crt0.o.) | | Or am I better off trying somehow to build up a 2.2.X machine to do | development on? Building a new development box from a set of 2.2.8 CDs would certainly be a simple and guaranteed method if that's an option for you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message