On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:39:27PM -0800, Guy Santiglia wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a small home network setup with two BSD machines
> and one linux machine.  The linux machine (bambam) is the
> bad ass on the block (550 MHZ Pentium3).  And the other machines are kind
> 
> The NFS mount is working well, but when I build packages
> on barney it is very slow and I was wondering if I can build
> packages for barney using the cpu of bambam. Is anything like
> this possible?

Possible, yes. Straightforward, no.

Depending on what you are compiling, a great many things are taken
for granted regarding the nature of your local system. What include
files are available, what libraries, and what system architechture
to build for (i386).

With a thorough setup, you could compile NetBSD/Vax, or any other
arch on bambam, but there are more than a few things to be careful
of.

Take a look at the cross pkgs in pkgsrc, i386-linux for example,
will show you how to build Linux binaries on a NetBSD development
machine.

Unfortunately, there's no pre-made package for going the other way around
(which is what you want...) probably because that wouldn't be a common
development environment for most NetBSD users.

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