--- John Klos <[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?
>
> 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.
That is interesting. I'll see if I can find the
article/post/whatever it was that pointed out the VAX
compiling problem.
> 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
You sir, are a patient man :-)
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