Re: Cross-building [was Re: CMD MSCP SCSI problems? (again?)]

[Andrew Ball <asbatwrk%gmail.com@localhost>]

  JT> Cross-compile it?  I mean, isn't that what **everybody**
    > does? :-)

   M> Well, not me, but I'm a pretty extreme outlier.  I cross-compile
    > only in order to get a first binary install on a machine; if it
    > can't self-host, I don't consider it usable.
    >
    > But then, I also don't run even vaguely modern NetBSD, and on
    > VAXen even less so - all my VAX installs are 1.4T-based.  And I
    > don't currently have any VAX hardware set up and working (all my
    > VAXing in the last, oh, decade maybe, has been simulated).

    In case it helps, I run NetBSD/vax 9.3 on simh.  I don't think I
have tried building a custom kernel yet but I'm willing to have a go!
The few packages I have installed were built through pkgsrc.

-Andy.