--- "Larson, Tim (Corporate)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -OpenBSD requires a "supported" arch. to be able
> to
> > compile the base system on its self. NetBSD does
> not
> > have this requirement. What does this mean? In
> Net
> > 1.6, ( haven't confirmed this for 2.0 ) You could
> not
> > compile the base system on VAX. You HAD to cross
> > compile. You could compile the base system on
> > OpenBSD.
>
> I only recently learned about this quirk. I took it
> for granted that you could compile code on a system
> that would run on that system. But now to find out
> you can't get back to what you started with? Seems
> bizarre to me. My question is, why is it not
> possible?
>
> Tim
Your guess is as good as mine. Some of the OpenBSD
camp have their opinions, and they aren't very
flattering. However, I do not know how much is fact
and how much is conjecture and how much is spite. So
I'll not repeat them here.
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