>>>>> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:12:51 -0500,
	"Tim Underwood" <TimU@hightouchinc.com> said:

> 1.  Create a chroot'ed environment to start the build from.

No, you don't need to use chroot.
You can specify arbitrary directory for source, object and
distribution trees.

> 2.  Get source from
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/

If you want to use NetBSD-current, yes.
But if you'd like to use NetBSD-1.6ish, you can use the following
URLs instead.
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.2/source/sets/
	(latest official release)
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-1-6/tar_files/src/
	(latest source tree of 1.6.x branch)

Note that, if you'd like to use -current userland, you need to
boot -current kernel before installing the userland.

> 3.  Build the "tools" for my selected target environment.
> 4.  Use the generated gcc (ld, etc.), from step 3 to build hpcmips
>   binaries

If you will build 1.6ish binaries, yes.

But if you will build -current (or 2.0ish) binaries, the following
one command does what you want:

	./build.sh -m hpcmips -T /SOMEWHERE/tool.hpcmips -D /SOMEWHERE/destdir.hpcmips tools kernel=GENERIC

(It may be good idea to provide "-M /somewhere/obj.hpcmips" to make
 the source directory read-only)
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