On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:54 +0530, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.sha...@gmail.com> wrote: > here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html > > certain statements are very impressive in those slides like "Build any > NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment" > $ uname -s -m > Linux i686 > $ cd netbsd-src > $ ./build.sh -m sparc64 release > > develop and test 32 bits apps on 64 bit env > cc -m 32 > > does FreeBSD has those two features ?
NetBSD needs a *very* minimal set of POSIX tools to build, e.g. you can get away with an sh(1) utility and a pretty basic make(1) tool. They have really done a magnificent job at constructing a build system that can bootstrap itself from a tiny set of build tools. FreeBSD also has _some_ of the necessary build glue to do similar sort of stuff, but AFAIK we only support cross-building from one FreeBSD architecture to another FreeBSD architecture. So you need to have at least *some* version of FreeBSD to build another. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
