Matt Sealey wrote:

> 2) does it crosscompile? I don't have any way of building a powerpc system
> from anything but a linux x86 laptop at the moment. the last time I tried
> this the suggestion (from the FreeBSD team I got the same result) was for
> me to buy a cheap old Mac to get the first stuff built. That's really
> beyond my means and the Efika will be all I have to do any further builds
> (not using it for builds means I can do more work)

Is there anything easier to crosscompile than NetBSD? :)

Read the cross-compilation guides, as Jochen already pointed out.
For speed reasons I'm building NetBSD/ofppc on a NetBSD/i386 machine at the
moment, and it is as easy as this:

cd /usr/src
./build.sh -m ofppc tools
./build.sh -m ofppc -u kernel=EFIKA

You only have to create you EFIKA-config file in sys/arch/ofppc/conf first.

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