On Tue 07 Mar 2000 at 20:06:05 -0600, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
> So just out of curiosity, to see if I could do it, I tried building the
> world ('make build') using March 4 sources on my 4000/60, NFS booting
> from a NetBSD/i386 box, NFS mounting the sources. 56Megs of memory, no
> swap.

My VS 3100 m38 has 16 megs and that's nearly enough - it swaps a very
little bit, but most of the time you can do two concurrent compiles with
memory left over. But it takes a while...

So I thought to make a cross compilation setup from Alpha. I've
send-pr-ed some patches for pkgrsc/cross/binutils, but cross-gas is
still resisting.  It turns out the a.out-object generating parts at
least are not 64-bit clean. And even after I fixed that, the object
files were not identical yet with those generated by as on the VAX. It
seems the native toolchain has lots of changes that are not brought into
the cross-toolchain...

But since I'm having a fever now I can't concentrate on all this right
now.

-Olaf.
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