Re: NetBSD cross tools

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <rmimxbwc9fs.fsf%fnord.ir.bbn.com@localhost>,
Greg Troxel  <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
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>christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:
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>> In article <rmiaa7xv995.fsf%fnord.ir.bbn.com@localhost>,
>> Greg Troxel  <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
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>>>  I've built NetBSD using 'build.sh -m sparc64 ... build' command and now
>>>  want to compile applications for sparc64 using cross-tools sitting on my
>>>  x86_64. Typescript is below.  As far as I can see SYSROOT is not set in
>>>  crosscompiler by default and linking fails due to this. Is this normal
>>>  behaviour? Is there a way to specify SYSROOT using environment variable?
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>>>Yes, I think this is normal for NetBSD cross tools.   Some people at BBN
>>>have done something similar and we used wrapper scripts that insert
>>>sysroot options.
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>> Use the nbmake-<arch> make wrapper.
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>That only works for things that use BSD make; it doesn't provide a
>generic cross environment for random third-party code.
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>Also, it doesn't support three simultaneous destdirs, one for NetBSD
>proper, one for pre-built binary packages for pkgsrc, and one for the
>other code being built directly out of a version control system
>checkout.
>One can't drop random files in the NetBSD DESTDIR, since then checkflist
>fails on the next build.

We could provide wrappers that do all those, it is not too difficult.

christos