Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:14:34 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross compilation goals. Message-ID: <99Nov24.080748est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199911231916.MAA03270@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199911182348.QAA28898@harmony.village.org> <199911231916.MAA03270@usr06.primenet.com>
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On 1999-Nov-24 06:16:56 +1100, Terry Lambert wrote: >> I've just read the rest of the thread, and need to amplify the non >> goal and state it as follows: >> >> 1) It will not necessarily be a goal of this effort to produce a >> FreeBSD source tree that can be compiled on a non-FreeBSD >> system. You will not necessarily be able to build a FreeBSD >> system on a Solaris system, for example. > > >I think it would have been very useful to the Alpha porting effort >if it had been possbile to build FreeBSD on DEC UNIX. 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. > Consider the performance of FreeBSD Alpha when compiled >with the much better DEC Compiler, for example. Has anyone actually done any comparative benchmarks between the two compilers? I found that (contrary to my expectations) gcc 2.8.1 was better than the DU cc for md5(1) and related tools. >> I'd like to add the following non-goal for the current effort: >> >> 2) It will not necessarily be a goal of this effort to produce >> binaries for Non-FreeBSD systems on a FreeBSD system. > >I can agree with this one, although it is somewhat of a shame to >lose this generalization. Same here, though it would be nice to have more integrated support for cross-development to embedded environments. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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