Subject: Re: [dank@kegel.com: Quote of the day: "matrix of pain"]
To: None <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Richard Grace <rjgrace@fastmail.fm>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 06/01/2005 18:56:53
On 01/06/2005, at 6:06 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:36:52PM +1000, Richard Grace wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 May 2005 17:52:30 -0700, "Aaron J. Grier"
>> <agrier@poofygoof.com> said:
>>> this came by the crossgcc mailing list.
>>>
>>> "matrix of pain" seems quite apropos.  aren't all of NetBSD's
>>> platforms cross-buildable, excepting 32-to-64 and vice-versa?
>>
>> I've built sparc64 on i386, and sparc on ppc, so there are no
>> exceptions from my experience.
>
> What branch are you talking about here?  I tried to cross-build
> netbsd-2/sparc64 on netbsd-2/i386 but that failed...

Hmm... it was some time ago, but it was to build 2-beta.

I remember building both sparc and sparc64 ports on my Macintosh (G4), 
but can't remember which ports I built on i386.  I currently don't have 
an intel machine running, so I can't re-run it for proof.

Rich.