Re: NOTICE: major changes to ofppc incoming

[Matt Sealey <matt%genesi-usa.com@localhost>]

Well, I was thinking from x86 Linux. Bringing up a NetBSD in another
Virtual Machine is going to destroy my laptop (I barely have enough
for Windows and Gentoo).

I suppose I could live with it.

-- 
Matt Sealey <matt%genesi-usa.com@localhost>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations

Frank Wille wrote:
> Matt Sealey wrote:
> 
>> 2) does it crosscompile? I don't have any way of building a powerpc system
>> from anything but a linux x86 laptop at the moment. the last time I tried
>> this the suggestion (from the FreeBSD team I got the same result) was for
>> me to buy a cheap old Mac to get the first stuff built. That's really
>> beyond my means and the Efika will be all I have to do any further builds
>> (not using it for builds means I can do more work)
> 
> Is there anything easier to crosscompile than NetBSD? :)
> 
> Read the cross-compilation guides, as Jochen already pointed out.
> For speed reasons I'm building NetBSD/ofppc on a NetBSD/i386 machine at the
> moment, and it is as easy as this:
> 
> cd /usr/src
> ./build.sh -m ofppc tools
> ./build.sh -m ofppc -u kernel=EFIKA
> 
> You only have to create you EFIKA-config file in sys/arch/ofppc/conf first.
>