Subject: Re: How to built a system from another platform ?
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@buzzbee.freeserve.co.uk>
From: Richard PLOIX <richard.ploix@fr.adp.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/14/2000 16:05:05
hello,
I looked for the cross-compiler making inthe whole document,
but I found nothing.
help  for doing it.
bye.
R.

At 22:23 13/12/00 +0000, you wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Richard PLOIX wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> At 17:09 13/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
>> >On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:45:14PM +0100, Richard PLOIX wrote:
>> >> hello,
>> >> I have a RISCPC/arm32 and a laptop/i386 NetBSD machines.
>> >> I recently do an update of the arm32 machine with 1.4.3 version,
>> >> (SUP, kernel and make build).
>> >> The sources are on the 8Gb-arm32 machine.
>> >> I have a ppp link between the two machines.
>> >> The 1386 disk(250 Mb) is too small to support the sources on itself.
>> >> Is it possible to generate an i386 kernel and an i386 make build
>> >> from or via the arm32 machine?
>> >
>> >You could certainly set up a cross compiler on the arm32 machine. It's
>> >quite easy to build a kernel this way, but doing a 'make build' will
>> > require more tweaks.
>>
>> OK, but how to do these kernel and cross compiled ?
>>
>> ===================================================
>>
>> >Another option is to mount the arm32's disk via NFS on the i386 machine,
>> >but over ppp it will be quite slow.
>>
>> I have a ppp and a lot of time to do it.
>> ========================================
>
>I'd suggest taking a look at:
>http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/chap-net.html#AEN2445
>It's the section in the netbsd guide talking about how to setup NFS for 
>server and clients.  I used it for getting some info on configuring an i386 
>as an nfs server, serving a RiscPC and a sparc (all running netbsd 1.5) for 
>doing builds and pkgsrc, works fine :)
>
>Chris
>
>