From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 23 13:16:13 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 EA7A61537C for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:16:08 -0800 (PST) (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 WAA17065 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:15:09 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA29414 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:15:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8C31537C for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:14:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40328>; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:07:48 +1100 Content-return: prohibited Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:14:34 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Cross compilation goals. In-reply-to: <199911231916.MAA03270@usr06.primenet.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@freebsd.org Reply-To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Message-Id: <99Nov24.080748est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <199911182348.QAA28898@harmony.village.org> <199911231916.MAA03270@usr06.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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