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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:04:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@packetdesign.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Development for older FreeBSD releases
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107111702390.59419-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200107112113.f6BLDgQ81686@nimitz.packetdesign.com>

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Get teh 'bin' distribution from a 2.2 CD
(or even possibly still online somewhere..)

unpack it on a machine....

chroot into it...
all binaries shuold still work except for 'ps' etc.


On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote:

> Hi fellow -hackers--
> 
> I need to make an executable to run on an i386 box running FreeBSD 2.2.X
> machine.  Unfortunately, it has no compiler installed on it.  All of the
> computers I have at my disposal currently are i386s running 4-STABLE or
> 5-CURRENT.  Upgrading the target machine is not an option.
> 
> Is it even possible to try doing a "cross-compile" to such an old
> version of FreeBSD?  (I'm primarily thinking of a.out vs. ELF issues...a
> quick experiment already informed me that I'm lacking an appropriate
> crt0.o.)
> 
> Or am I better off trying somehow to build up a 2.2.X machine to do
> development on?
> 
> Thanks for any insights...
> 
> Bruce.
> 
> 
> 


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