On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:29:22AM -0500, Teardrop Sky wrote:
> the guide says the bsd should be close to the target
> and i know openbsd was originally split from netbsd
> but is it close enough that i may be able to build it?

That's dated information (getting close to 10 years old, I guess).
Except for one exception due to a gcc bug, all ports of NetBSD 1.6
were cross-compiled on a beefy x86 box running NetBSD. That
cross-compilation mechanism has been known to work on a handful of
other platforms, including FreeBSD, some versions of Linux, Solaris,
and maybe even cygwin. It bootstraps itself, building the necessary
host tools first, then building the system. For kernel stuff, you
can just build the tools separately and use them by hand.

-allen

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