-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?
Oh, this is definitely not true. NetBSD not only makes it easy to bootstrap NetBSD for any CPU / platform on any other, but you can also do so on any reasonably Unix-like OS, such as GNU/Linux, Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X, and others.
But except when there was momentary breakage, there has never been a time where you couldn't compile the operating system on itself. I have two VAX, and before 2.0 came out, I had one of them compile its own OS - took almost 5 days, but it worked.
John
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