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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. Healing the pain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The Christmas season can be an especially difficult time for those suffering a personal loss. And while it is true that BSD is dying, there are some helpful steps you can take: :
    • deal with the inevitable.
    • grieve for your loss.
    • move on.
    Never let your emotions get tangled up with something as silly as a computer
    operating system. It isn't healthy. So BSD fails. Big whoop. Deal with it and move on.
  2. Re:*BSD is dying by JDWTopGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think slashdot should save all these trolls time and just automatically post at -1, Troll: the GNAA, *BSD is dead, a goatse link, and maybe a beowulf cluster/Natalie Portman grits joke.

    Imagine the time savings!

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  3. FreeBSD 5.2 is doomed to fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Back in the day, around FreeBSD 2.2.8, it was a very nice operating system. However, when RELENG_5 was branched, a lot of wrong decisions were made, most of them by people with zero clue about how to implement proper SMP (e.g. John Baldwin). Matt Dillon tried to fix the situation, but all he got in response was a commit bit suspension, which later lead to his expulsion.

    You can thank assholes like: Poul-Henning Kamp (POT, KETTLE, BLACK), Greg Lehey, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, Mark Murray and Bill Fumerola for kicking him out and making sure that, thanks to overengineering, RELENG_5 will never work.

    Further proof, FreeBSD recently went 100% dynamic to allow the use of NSS switch system. John Dyson, who did most of the VM work back in the day, pointed out how wrong this decision was. Dillon also jumped in and offered a better solution. What he got as reward was Scott Long telling him to go away. Listen Scott, YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT. Not only you don't even know how to quote, but you also managed to fuck the 5.1-R isos twice. I wonder how can you be in re@, that sure has lead to the piss-poor quality of the last 2 or 3 releases.

    FreeBSD 5.2 is currently in the RC phase, but it has a very important showstopper that needs to be ironed out before it's released. Activating softupdates during install is a sure way to kernel panic. RELENG_5 is doomed, and will never work. Install DragonFlyBSD while you can.

    Joseph Mallett, an ex-committer.

    8763
  4. FreeBSD 5.2 is doomed to fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Back in the day, around FreeBSD 2.2.8, it was a very nice operating system. However, when RELENG_5 was branched, a lot of wrong decisions were made, most of them by people with zero clue about how to implement proper SMP (e.g. John Baldwin). Matt Dillon tried to fix the situation, but all he got in response was a commit bit suspension, which later lead to his expulsion.

    You can thank assholes like: Poul-Henning Kamp (POT, KETTLE, BLACK), Greg Lehey, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, Mark Murray and Bill Fumerola for kicking him out and making sure that, thanks to overengineering, RELENG_5 will never work.

    Further proof, FreeBSD recently went 100% dynamic to allow the use of NSS switch system. John Dyson, who did most of the VM work back in the day, pointed out how wrong this decision was. Dillon also jumped in and offered a better solution. What he got as reward was Scott Long telling him to go away. Listen Scott, YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT. Not only you don't even know how to quote, but you also managed to fuck the 5.1-R isos twice. I wonder how can you be in re@, that sure has lead to the piss-poor quality of the last 2 or 3 releases.

    FreeBSD 5.2 is currently in the RC phase, but it has a very important showstopper that needs to be ironed out before it's released. Activating softupdates during install is a sure way to kernel panic. RELENG_5 is doomed, and will never work. Install DragonFlyBSD while you can.

    Joseph Mallett, an ex-committer.

    16002
  5. FreeBSD 5.2 is doomed to fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Back in the day, around FreeBSD 2.2.8, it was a very nice operating system. However, when RELENG_5 was branched, a lot of wrong decisions were made, most of them by people with zero clue about how to implement proper SMP (e.g. John Baldwin). Matt Dillon tried to fix the situation, but all he got in response was a commit bit suspension, which later lead to his expulsion.

    You can thank assholes like: Poul-Henning Kamp (POT, KETTLE, BLACK), Greg Lehey, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, Mark Murray and Bill Fumerola for kicking him out and making sure that, thanks to overengineering, RELENG_5 will never work.

    Further proof, FreeBSD recently went 100% dynamic to allow the use of NSS switch system. John Dyson, who did most of the VM work back in the day, pointed out how wrong this decision was. Dillon also jumped in and offered a better solution. What he got as reward was Scott Long telling him to go away. Listen Scott, YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT. Not only you don't even know how to quote, but you also managed to fuck the 5.1-R isos twice. I wonder how can you be in re@, that sure has lead to the piss-poor quality of the last 2 or 3 releases.

    FreeBSD 5.2 is currently in the RC phase, but it has a very important showstopper that needs to be ironed out before it's released. Activating softupdates during install is a sure way to kernel panic. RELENG_5 is doomed, and will never work. Install DragonFlyBSD while you can.

    Joseph Mallett, an ex-committer.

    24611
  6. Re:Questionable Choice of Host by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Back in the day, around FreeBSD 2.2.8, it was a very nice operating system. However, when RELENG_5 was branched, a lot of wrong decisions were made, most of them by people with zero clue about how to implement proper SMP (e.g. John Baldwin). Matt Dillon tried to fix the situation, but all he got in response was a commit bit suspension, which later lead to his expulsion [slashdot.org].

    You can thank assholes like: Poul-Henning Kamp (POT, KETTLE, BLACK), Greg Lehey, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, Mark Murray and Bill Fumerola for kicking him out and making sure that, thanks to overengineering, RELENG_5 will never work.

    Further proof, FreeBSD recently went 100% dynamic to allow the use of NSS switch system. John Dyson, who did most of the VM work back in the day, pointed out how wrong this decision was. Dillon also jumped in and offered a better solution. What he got as reward was Scott Long telling him to go away. Listen Scott, YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT. Not only you don't even know how to quote, but you also managed to fuck the 5.1-R isos twice. I wonder how can you be in re@, that sure has lead to the piss-poor quality of the last 2 or 3 releases.

    FreeBSD 5.2 is currently in the RC phase, but it has a very important showstopper that needs to be ironed out before it's released. Activating softupdates during install is a sure way to kernel panic. RELENG_5 is doomed, and will never work. Install DragonFlyBSD while you can.

    Joseph Mallett, an ex-committer.

  7. TROLLKORE IS DYING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SHIT ON ME! It's official - Slashdot has fucking confirmed: Trollkore is dying

    Yet another cunting bombshell hit the community of Trollkore asswipes when Slashdot recently confirmed that Trollkore accounts for less than a fraction of one single puny fucking percent of all trolls. Coming hot on the heels of the latest Slashdot survey which plainly states that Trollkore has lost more fucking fp's to the GNAA, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Trollkore is ingesting itself backwards, disappearing up its very own shitter, as fittingly exemplified by beeing fucking owned in this recent Slashdot story.

    You don't need to be a cock-sucking Kreskin to predict Trollkore's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Trollkore faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any fucking future at all for Trollkore because that sorded, shit-filled, mutated testicle of a troll group is dying. Things are looking very bad for Trollkore. As many of us are already aware, Trollkore continues to lose first posts. Red ink splashes across the accounting documents like a series of exploding bloodfarts. Trollkore munches the most ass of them all, having lost 93% of its core trollers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Trollkore cuntwipes Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Trollkore is dying and its rotting corpse smells worse than a maggot, vomit, shit and piss cocktail.

    Due to the troubles of those arseholes at Slashdot, abysmal trolls and so on, Trollkore showed themselves to be a bunch of retarded tossers, went out of business and were taken over by GNAA who troll another type of trolls. Now Trollkore is also a miserable failure, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house... pathetic.

    All major surveys show that Trollkore has steadily fucking declined in first posts. Trollkore is where it belongs, at death's door and its long term survival prospects are almost non-fucking-existant. If Trollkore is to survive at all it will be among moronic, dilettante shitheads. Trollkore continues to Chew Satan's Dick And Fuck The Baby Jesus Up The Pooper. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Trollkore is dead.

    Fact: Trollkore WILL FUCKING LOOSE THE UPCOMING FP-BATTLE!!.

  8. CORPSE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TEHRAN, Dec. 27 -- The death toll from the devastating earthquake that shook the southern Iranian city of Bam for 12 seconds on Friday morning rose to 25,001, city officials said Saturday, and confirmed that BSD was among the dead.

    The interior minister, Abdolvahed Moussavi Lari, said on state television from Bam: "The city is ruined. More than 70 percent of it is destroyed. And BSD was crushed, there is no hope of survival"

    On Saturday, the tens of thousands of injured people crowded field hospitals or lay helplessly in the streets, while survivors and rescuers dug frantically trying in vain to save the crushed form of BSD. Aftershocks jolted the area, shaking down the crumbled remains of the city's low-rise clay-tile, brick and concrete-block dwellings, which was now BSD's tomb.

  9. Re:*BSD is dying by utlemming · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, anything that has the terms, "BSD is Dead," "goatse.cx," and "In SOVIET Russia," should be parsed through the lameness filter. And anything with refrences to sexual encounters with animals should be simply run to /dev/null. The GNAA is just flat out offensive. The thing that blows my mind is why someone would spend the time to actually produce such dribble. I mean, on my time off I usually go do a little FreeBSD hacking (on my own machines) and enjoy a movie, or something. But I would never sit down and write about how to get a Mare all hot and bothered, or about the GNAA. And I more disturbed that such people are allowed to post such messages.

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  10. 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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  11. WHAAAAAAA!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Typical slashbot reaction. Listen, there is a moderation system in place. USE IT! Don't browse at -1 or 0. It figures that the slashdot crowd secretly wants censorship.