Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:20 -0800 (PST) From: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet@yahoo.ca> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool Message-ID: <242758.48200.qm@web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <87vdduespd.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <b10011eb1002180039h290fc5c8q48f85bad8eb114b9@mail.gmail.com> <87vdduespd.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Hi, ----- Original Message ---- > From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> > To: Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 1:36:30 PM > Subject: Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:54 +0530, Masoom Shaikh > wrote: > > here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 > > > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html > > > > certain statements are very impressive in those slides like "Build any > > NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment" > > $ uname -s -m > > Linux i686 > > $ cd netbsd-src > > $ ./build.sh -m sparc64 release > > > > develop and test 32 bits apps on 64 bit env > > cc -m 32 > > > > does FreeBSD has those two features ? > > NetBSD needs a *very* minimal set of POSIX tools to build, e.g. you can > get away with an sh(1) utility and a pretty basic make(1) tool. They > have really done a magnificent job at constructing a build system that > can bootstrap itself from a tiny set of build tools. > > FreeBSD also has _some_ of the necessary build glue to do similar sort > of stuff, but AFAIK we only support cross-building from one FreeBSD > architecture to another FreeBSD architecture. So you need to have at > least *some* version of FreeBSD to build another. How about these bench vs FreeBSD?! http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img15.html Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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