Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 17:00:31 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980606165350.421N-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199806042155.HAA28193@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > Separate root and usr would be good, thanks. Hopefully it shouldn't be > > too much effort to get rtld-elf working for alpha later. > > I'm not sure how functional the binaries will be using a FreeBSD kernel > because they use NetBSD syscalls. Things like stat(2) will fail because > of the changes NetBSD made for 1.3. Maybe now would be a good time to > look at changing src/Makefile to do cross worlds, where the programs > built into WORLDTMP are not executed during the build. I am having fairly good luck running NetBSD binaries from 1.3 so far. /bin/ls seems to work so I think stat(2) is ok. A cross world build would be a very useful thing. I would like to be able to build alpha worlds from my x86 box ideally. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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