On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:57:46PM +1100, dkwok wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:13:28AM +0100, david Kwok wrote:
> >
> >>I got the gz file from ftp.netbsd.org and ftp.au.netbsd.org. I have 
> >>received 
> >
> >
> >which directory on the ftp server ?
> >Are you sure you got the 1.6 sources ?
> 
> the directory was pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/sources/sets/syssrc.tgz

OK, looks good

> 
> >
> >No, you need to upgarde several tools. The best way is to get the entire
> >NetBSD sources and use build.sh in this case.
> 
> I am pretty new to this. So I need to download the src.tgz & syssrc.tgz, 
> sharesrc.tgz and gnusrc.tgz. But I don't necessarily want to upgrade a 

Yes

> system when I only want to compile the kernel for a different system.

You don't need to upgrade the system. build.sh will create cross-compile
tools in a separate treee and use them. See
http://www.fr.netbsd.org/Documentation/cross/ and
BUILDING in the src/ directory.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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