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Date:      Sat, 9 Oct 1999 10:49:02 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, committers@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/make.conf abuse
Message-ID:  <19991009104902.F28001@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991008192943.S71340@bitbox.follo.net>
References:  <199906171027.UAA03438@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <37FDFAE2.3A7E312B@newsguy.com> <19991008192943.S71340@bitbox.follo.net>

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On [19991008 20:00], Eivind Eklund (eivind@freebsd.org) wrote:

>In an ideal world, we would be able to do a lot more configuring of
>the build than today.

In the ongoing porting of FreeBSD to other architectures, PPC, MIPS,
ARM, and SPARC come to mind, we also need something which enables
developers without access to either of these platforms to at least try
and see if they can build this.

Dare I even touch the subject of cross-compilation in association with
/usr/src and it's proposed new configuration files and knobs?

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
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