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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:12:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Marco van de Voort" <marcov@stack.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ported application 
Message-ID:  <200004130412.VAA23456@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:03:59 %2B0100." <20000412120437.242472E802@hermes.tue.nl> 

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> People in the freebsd-hackers told me that such (non gcc compiled or compiled
> by gcc descendants) projects already exist? Can somebody give me
> some examples where I can look at?

Take a look at ports/lang/sml-nj, the SML/NJ compiler for ML.  Other
'bootstrapped' languages in ports include Sather, MIT-Scheme, and Erlang
IIRC.  Some of these compile a small bootstrap stage on the native system,
load in an initial image and then recompile themselves becoming totally
`native' from that point on.

> How does one implement such port? A single port entry would be quite large 
> (5-9 MB (depends on inclusion of non BSD stuff for crosscompiling, and 

Most of the ports listed above are quite large and monolithic, because the
distributed files are such :(.  I personally prefer a complete port; 5-10MB
is ok.

Regards,
Koshy



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