marty fouts wrote:
> This is sort of an odd request, but I'm building a NetBSD-ARM system,
> and I have developers who will be developing for it that are already
> on Linux based boxes.

I am not an expert on the NetBSD build system, but this worked for me. I 
wanted to try out cross-compiling NetBSD 3.0 for PPC on x86 Linux and I 
just followed the steps described in [1].

I had been using a slower NetBSD 3.0 x86 box to do the cross-compile 
before. I just used the same steps on Linux and it worked out of the 
box. All you need is GCC installed on your Linux box, so build.sh can 
build the tool-chain.

The reason this works is that build.sh checks for the presence of all 
the tools it needs and if they aren't there, it just builds them from 
source. That includes BSD's make(1) command. I had no issues whatsoever.

Good luck.

Regards,
Markus

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-build.html

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Markus Mayer
Redback Networks Inc.