Re: Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary?

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 10/25/05

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To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>

    On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:47:57AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
    > Hi Peter and others,
    >
    > > At some stage, we need to validate our cross-build chain with cmp(1).
    > > We can probably leverage off the work that NetBSD has done in this
    > > area. This would significantly simplify the work involved in supporting
    > > the various architectures.
    >
    > in case you know enough about NetBSD's build.sh, can you say if FreeBSD's
    > build architecture is powerful enough to merely use it with a few s///
    > or does it still lack one or more things ?

    I expect it's pretty different. ru@ did a lot of work on
    cross-building FreeBSD though, and he had a fairly detailed list
    of known differences between cross-built and native builds. I'm not
    sure if he reduced it to 0 length.

    Kris

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