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."

Comments

Questionable Choice of Host

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm aware of NetBSD's mission to run on every possible platform, but using Mac OSX as a build system seems a little bit silly. The extreme costs of Apple computers make them poor choices for expedients such as this.

I'd like to see a NetBSD live CD. I think it would be very fucking cool to see a toolchain developed entirely in Perl, then a CD with multiple NetBSD kernels and Perl for the many systems. A boot menu could let you select the platform. One live CD for every platform that NetBSD supports--cool.

Re:*BSD is dying

[JDWTopGuy]

Well.... I'm losing karma fast here, but some times the "BSD is dead" joke is funny (in context), and same for "Soviet Russia" jokes.

On the rest I agree with you.