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Date:      Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:44:56 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Confused about ARM64 cross-compilation
Message-ID:  <1518137096.32585.128.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAOZdJXXPFfQFGRuFrGHvkmi2wRTDq4ESBPu%2BWxXjzL=a=d3jdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 18:21 -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> I am brand new to the FreeBSD world, and I'm trying to debug problems
> in booting FreeBSD on a new ARM64 system with ACPI.
> 
> I've installed FreeBSD 11 on an x86 system, and I followed the
> instructions on https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/crossbuild to
> download the source code.  Then I download arm64_build.sh from
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64 and run that.  Now it's building
> something, but I don't know what it's doing.  Shouldn't I need to
> install a cross-compiler first?
> 

Nope, the freebsd build process is completely self-contained.  It
starts by building whatever cross-compiler it needs if crossbuilding is
involved.

-- Ian



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