Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 10:21:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, jin@george.lbl.gov, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha-2100 server support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9902021019230.10768-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199902020934.CAA79458@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199902012201.XAA02931@yedi.iaf.nl> Wilko Bulte writes: > : I'm guessing, but I think Freebsd/axp started off by building things > : under NetBSD/axp and not using OSF-1 ehh, D-Unix, eeh True64 Unix (or > : whatever it is called these days). > > Kinda. I did try to make FreeBSD/alpha build under OSF-1, but there > were many problems. It could be done, but needed many compatibility > routines to make it even a remote possibility. I punted. This was > before John Birrell's heroic efforts, however. > > One could likely get FreeBSD/alpha building on osf-1 (assuming hand > built build tools) if the cross building support for FreeBSD was a > little better. It isn't an out of the box thing, as far as I know. If all you are building is a kernel, life is a *lot* easier. Building a userland is hard though; I'm eternally grateful for John's NetBSD cross-build solution it made my life so much easier when I was first bootstrapping a native FreeBSD/alpha system. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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