Subject: Re: Crosscompiling
To: None <tech-toolchain@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/29/1999 17:06:52
>> 	o	Eliminate the technical barriers that stop developers
>> 		using any ``UNIX like environment'' when building
>> 		NetBSD.  (ex, try building an 1.4.1/i386 boot disk
>> 		without NetBSD).

> The problem is that you'd need to come up with something like the vnd
> device for the other systems. You need to make an ffs on a file... :-(

That doesn't demand vnds.  Just something mtoolsish.

I have programs that can do the read side of that sort of stuff.  Add
some code to handle allocation and the write side would be pretty
simple.

					der Mouse

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