Subject: Re: [dank@kegel.com: Quote of the day: "matrix of pain"]
To: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.org.uk>
From: Chris Laverdure <dashevil@sympatico.ca>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 05/22/2005 15:31:08
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 14:07 -0400, Chris Laverdure wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 14:30 +0100, Julian Coleman wrote:
> > > "matrix of pain" seems quite apropos.  aren't all of NetBSD's platforms
> > > cross-buildable, excepting 32-to-64 and vice-versa?
> > 
> > If I remember correctly, there were some problems with an older version
> > of gcc, that prevented some 32 bit architectures from being compiled on
> > 64 bit machines.
> > 
> > Currently, you should be able to compile any platform on any other -
> > although I can't imagine people compiling (say) i386 on vax.  You should
> > also be able to compile NetBSD on other OS's (e.g. FreeBSD or Linux).
> > 
> > J
> > 
> 
> Compiling NetBSD on FreeBSD 5.x requires a small patch to some files (I
> can't remember the error message but everytime I get it a quick google
> points me in the way of the patch) but it does work. I had to do it
> because the NetBSD 2.0 GENERIC kernel is too big to fit in a contiguous
> memory block, so I built a custom kernel, along with the (2.0 was in
> BETA at the time) latest userland from CVS and that worked beautifully. 
> 

Alright, well. This problem doesn't appear to exist in HEAD.
-- 
Chris Laverdure <dashevil@sympatico.ca>