-----Original Message-----
From: port-mips-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-mips-owner@netbsd.org]On
Behalf Of Rafal Boni
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:23 PM
To: Michael Engel
Cc: port-mips@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: mipseb cross compiler problems on Alpha?


In message <20011109210555.A152594@aretha.informatik.uni-siegen.de>, you
write:


-> I'm currently trying to compile a NetBSD (1.5.2) kernel for
-> MIPSco machines (mipseb). As I have no native NetBSD-mipseb
-> machine available, I installed NetBSD 1.5.2 on an AlphaStation
-> 255 that was sitting unused in a corner (everyone here's
-> transitioning to x86 hardware...) and tried to cross-compile
-> the NetBSD kernel according to the "Cross building NetBSD"
-> document using the cross-mipseb-netbsd-1.3.0.0 package from
-> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/alpha/All/\
-> cross-mipseb-netbsd-1.3.0.0.tgz.
->
-> After adapting the cross-compile script the kernel compile
-> started fine but reproducably stops with a "virtual memory
-> exhausted" error message when cross-compiling
->
-> usr/src/sys/lib/libkern/sha1.c
->
-> Increasing swap space to 1 GB did not change this behaviour.

I had something similiar ... doing a cross-compile on Dec Tru64-UNIX
to mips-el (doing an 'ARC' kernel build netbsd1.5)... I had to 'down-grade'
to
netbsd1.4 tool-chain to get a successful kernel build...seem's
to be an 'Alpha' only problem...