Subject: Re: Cross compiling...
To: billy ball <bball@tux.org>
From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 04/04/2002 09:08:13
OK...  If anyone is interested, I just put a gzipped vesion of the kernel
at:

http://memory.visualtech.com/netbsd.gz

Adam

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, billy ball wrote:
> 
> > way to go!
> >
> > i volunteer to test the new kernel!
> >
> > :-)
> 
> 
> Though I certainly have no objections to posting it somewhere, I'm not
> convinced it does a whole lot of good till the trackpoint support gets
> working :-)
> 
> Unfortunately, I spent nearly all of my evening fighting with my ISP about
> my access to our news server, followed by a fight with my x86 machine to
> work with the 4Front OSS drivers under NetBSD, so I haven't had a chance
> to try patching -current with the trackpoint code again.
> 
> However, I'll post this kernel on a server at work tomorrow when I get a
> chance, so anyone who wants to can download it.  The more people who can
> test out the audio support and the LCD blanking, the better.  I'll e-mail
> the list with the location of the kernel tomorrow morning.
> 
> Bear in mind that I'm using a fairly recent snapshot of the entire base
> distribution.  Though I don't think this is the case, it's always possible
> that this -current kernel is going to require and pretty current userland.
> 
> So, of course, I bear no responsibility if anyone somehow manages to
> destroy their z50 with this kernel.
> 
> Now here's a question for everyone else...  Though I didn't have any
> problems cross-compiling the kernel, I can't seem to cross compile any
> pakages.  During the configure process for every packages I've tried, the
> script dies complaing that "C compiler can't create executables".  Anyone
> know what the problem is and how to fix it?  Since some of these packages
> can be quite big, it'd be nice to be able to cross compile them, rather
> than waiting for the z50 to compile them :-)
> 
> Adam
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