Re: snapshots are broken

[Mark Valentine <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat 1 Nov, 2003
> Subject: Re: snapshots are broken

>     No, I meant cross build environments *ON* a DFly system to produce other
>     systems.
> 
>     I am not contemplating the huge effort it would take to cross build 
>     DragonFly on a non-BSD system.  It is Conceivably possible to do, but
>     probably not worth the effort when ISO's and snapshots can be made
>     readily available.

Indeed such a build system is a large effort (it was worth it for the NetBSD
folks because the requirement to self-host everything was too painful).

However, I mention it because that's what would make it (vaguely) more feasible
to generate a custom Dragonfly kernel in a heterogenous environment.

If I need to build a serial console network install floppy image for a NetBSD
target on a Solaris host or whatever, I can!  Except that their release process
creates one for me to grab, so I don't need to...  ;-)

Sorry to belabour the point.

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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