From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 6 08:59:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16672 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 08:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16663 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 08:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA05396; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 17:00:31 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 17:00:31 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Birrell cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile In-Reply-To: <199806042155.HAA28193@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > Separate root and usr would be good, thanks. Hopefully it shouldn't be > > too much effort to get rtld-elf working for alpha later. > > I'm not sure how functional the binaries will be using a FreeBSD kernel > because they use NetBSD syscalls. Things like stat(2) will fail because > of the changes NetBSD made for 1.3. Maybe now would be a good time to > look at changing src/Makefile to do cross worlds, where the programs > built into WORLDTMP are not executed during the build. I am having fairly good luck running NetBSD binaries from 1.3 so far. /bin/ls seems to work so I think stat(2) is ok. A cross world build would be a very useful thing. I would like to be able to build alpha worlds from my x86 box ideally. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message