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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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  1. Re:*BSD is dying by JamesTRexx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think just about all would go away if posting AC could be turned off in sections like these.

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