Subject: Re: How to built a system from another platform ?
To: Richard PLOIX <richard.ploix@fr.adp.com>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@buzzbee.freeserve.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/14/2000 23:00:46
What I was suggesting (sorry twas late , didn't make it clear:)  was that you 
mount the arm32 disks via nfs on the i386, it can then build into a OBJDIR, 
DESTDIR and RELEASEDIR on the nfs mounted disks.

Chris

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Richard PLOIX wrote:
> hello,
> I looked for the cross-compiler making inthe whole document,
> but I found nothing.
> help  for doing it.
> bye.
> R.
>
> At 22:23 13/12/00 +0000, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Richard PLOIX wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> At 17:09 13/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >> >On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:45:14PM +0100, Richard PLOIX wrote:
> >> >> hello,
> >> >> I have a RISCPC/arm32 and a laptop/i386 NetBSD machines.
> >> >> I recently do an update of the arm32 machine with 1.4.3 version,
> >> >> (SUP, kernel and make build).
> >> >> The sources are on the 8Gb-arm32 machine.
> >> >> I have a ppp link between the two machines.
> >> >> The 1386 disk(250 Mb) is too small to support the sources on itself.
> >> >> Is it possible to generate an i386 kernel and an i386 make build
> >> >> from or via the arm32 machine?
> >> >
> >> >You could certainly set up a cross compiler on the arm32 machine. It's
> >> >quite easy to build a kernel this way, but doing a 'make build' will
> >> > require more tweaks.
> >>
> >> OK, but how to do these kernel and cross compiled ?
> >>
> >> ===================================================
> >>
> >> >Another option is to mount the arm32's disk via NFS on the i386
> >> > machine, but over ppp it will be quite slow.
> >>
> >> I have a ppp and a lot of time to do it.
> >> ========================================
> >
> >I'd suggest taking a look at:
> >http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/chap-net.html#AEN2445
> >It's the section in the netbsd guide talking about how to setup NFS for
> >server and clients.  I used it for getting some info on configuring an
> > i386 as an nfs server, serving a RiscPC and a sparc (all running netbsd
> > 1.5) for doing builds and pkgsrc, works fine :)
> >
> >Chris