NetBSD Crossbuild Hosted On Mac OS X 10.3

Dan writes "A few weeks ago Xavier Humbert succesfully compiled NetBSD-current on a MacOSX 10.3 with an i386 target. He has provided a summary of his crossbuild execution as well as his build script. But why bother crossbuilding ? Erik Berls's article explains the process of cross compilation on NetBSD. He says that NetBSD's crossbuild framework allows a host to build a version of NetBSD 1.6 or later regardless of the version of the host. Crossbuilding has several major benefits, if you have production servers, you can build the OS without needing to load down the machine that is actively surviving as a production host."

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It's cute, it's cool

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But if you have enough money to have "production servers" then you have enough money to have a build system of the proper architecture. One PC with vmware on it can handle all your x86 operating systems (in most cases anyway) including running several at the same time. Or, you can multiboot, but that's a pretty wanky solution I think.