Okay, that sounds like a start -- I'll give it a shot today. Do you have
any recommendations for how to go about building? just mkdir ~/build %%
configure --target=arm-unknown-netbsd && make, or is there something more
involved?

Could you also elaborate on "hacking around" the genassym/makemodes stuff? :-)

-Edwin

At 12:09 PM 10/3/98 +0100, Neil A. Carson wrote:
>Todd Vierling wrote:
>
>> FYI, you can get a cross-compiler that produces _static_ binaries as we're
>> still working on the support to make dynamically linked or shared binaries
>> in a cross linker.
>> 
>> The source tree in src/gnu/dist can be used to produce a gas, ld, and gcc,
>> but that can't yet be used to compile the NetBSD source tree or anything
>> dynamically linked.
>> 
>> mark@netbsd.org or neil@netbsd.org will probably chime in now with the
>> information on patches you can use against the out of the box GNU binutils.
>> :>
>
>I didn't think neil@netbsd.org worked ;-)
>
>There are quite a few people successfully cross-compiling using a
>crossed build of the standard NetBSD gcc distribution on
>cross-architectures such as i386. This will work fine for the kernel,
>except you'll want to 'hack around' the genassym/makemodes stuff (nuke
>the latter for non-RiscPC).
>
>I just build natively though. Not thinking straight right now having
>spent 14 hours on an aircraft last night...
>
>-- 
>Neil A. Carson
>
>
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