marty fouts wrote:

> Obviously I can hack the application into the NetBSD source tree and
> use build.sh to make world and get it that way, but I was looking for
> a way to extract the toolchain from the tree, install it on a
> non-NetBSD system and then build a.out against it.

You could use build.sh and the procedure described in the 
cross-compilation guide to build your tool-chain (./build.sh -m 
<yourarch> tools") on Linux.

Then you just use the compiler created by this step to compile your 
application as a separate, independent step.

Regards,
Markus

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Markus Mayer
Redback Networks Inc.