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Re: NetBSD cross compile from Win32?



On 30 Jan 2001, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

: The compilation tools are a mess: as far as I know you can't build
: cross-tools out of the in tree 'dist' bits (even if you want to -- I
: can't), and NetBSD support in the stock GNU tools is incomplete for
: many, perhaps most, targets, because the NetBSD-related changes
: haven't all been submitted back to the FSF maintainers.

I'm working on these procedures as I type this.

Also needed, however, are reachover Makefiles that build "host" versions of
the non-GNU toolchain bits, using <bsd.hostprog.mk>.  Even a "make build"
should use these, so that it can do an upgrade bootstrap.

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