Subject: Re: cross/powerpc-netbsd
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 04/28/2004 11:32:41
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Steven Grunza wrote:
> This might not be a bug but I recently downloaded two pkgsrc.tar.gz files
> (possibly they are the same) and both do not have a
> pkgsrc/cross/powerpc-netbsd directory.
>
> Has the powerpc-netbsd cross building package been removed? I have
> cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3.0.0 installed on an older machine but the newer
> pkgsrc tarballs don't seem to include it.
It was removed 18 months ago because:
Remove some obsolete cross-compilation packages
The recommended way nowadays is to use build.sh for generating
cross-toolchains; for details, see e.g.
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/cross/
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Jeremy C. Reed
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