From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 11 15:28:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC46637B406 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA60390; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:04:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Development for older FreeBSD releases In-Reply-To: <200107112113.f6BLDgQ81686@nimitz.packetdesign.com> Message-ID: 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 Get teh 'bin' distribution from a 2.2 CD (or even possibly still online somewhere..) unpack it on a machine.... chroot into it... all binaries shuold still work except for 'ps' etc. On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Hi fellow -hackers-- > > 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? > > Thanks for any insights... > > Bruce. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message