On 25 Oct 2000 eeh@netbsd.org wrote:

	# No, cross compiling the kernel is easy.  Just build a toolchain
	# in src/gnu/dist/toolchain for sparc64-netbsd.  Cross compiling 
	# userland is hard.

	Buh?!?

	Is that because there's some sparc64-dependent stuff hanging out
	in the libs, etc?  (I would think that one could draw at least some
	of the semantics from the alpha port which is 64-bit native, is it
	not?  Obviously the MD stuff needs are different.)

No, it's because cross compiling any netbsd snapshot is difficult,
especially from a different OS, and it's much more difficult if 
the toolchain is not built as part of the process.  If you manage
to build a full cross-compiler toolchain on a NetBSD machine it
tends to be much easier.

Eduardo