Subject: Re: How to built a system from another platform ?
To: Richard PLOIX <richard.ploix@fr.adp.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/13/2000 17:09:38
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:45:14PM +0100, Richard PLOIX wrote:
> hello,
> I have a RISCPC/arm32 and a laptop/i386 NetBSD machines.
> I recently do an update of the arm32 machine with 1.4.3 version,
> (SUP, kernel and make build).
> The sources are on the 8Gb-arm32 machine.
> I have a ppp link between the two machines.
> The 1386 disk(250 Mb) is too small to support the sources on itself.
> Is it possible to generate an i386 kernel and an i386 make build
> from or via the arm32 machine?

You could certainly set up a cross compiler on the arm32 machine. It's
quite easy to build a kernel this way, but doing a 'make build' will require
more tweaks.
Another option is to mount the arm32's disk via NFS on the i386 machine,
but over ppp it will be quite slow.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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