Subject: Re: Alright, damnit, this is getting annoying.
To: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/12/1997 14:54:14
Boris Gjenero wrote:
>
> Curt Sampson wrote:
> >
> > Having a cross-compiler set up would probably be a really, really
> > big boon for anyone working on a VAX. My PPro150 can compile the
> > world and a kernel in well under three hours. My uVAX 2000 would
> > probably take more like 3 days. :-)
>
3 days? Pah! Try a week!
> I agree. Official cross-compiling support within NetBSD would probably
> be the best way to go. Such a thing may be a bit hard to do now, but I
> think that the benefits of having something like that in an OS that
> supports so many architectures is a great idea.
>
For sure. Like Boris I poked around trying to make a cross build system
(in my case under AIX) but didn't get that far. I only tried for about an
hour, though.
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