Sean Brown wrote: > On July 10, 2005 1:56 am, Tom Cosgrove wrote: ... >> OpenBSD is an entire operating system, designed to >> be built on OpenBSD - and not even cross-compiled on a different >> processor architecture of the same operating system. > > Which would be all well and good if it wern't for the fact that under the > projects goals it lists > > Provide a good cross compile/development platform. > > Which is probably a good reason why people, including my self once, have > asked > why cross compiling doesn't work on OpenBSD.
Those people aren't developers. There is a huge difference between people who want to build OpenBSD on their fast system to run on their slow platform so they can say "look what I did" and someone who is bringing on-line a new platform. IF you are attempting to bring on-line a new platform, OpenBSD will provide a good developement environment to do so. But then, if that's what you are trying to do, you will not be asking "how do I do this?" on the mail lists. You will understand the tools, you will look at the Makefiles, and you will find and fix the issues you encounter. If you got to ask how to do these things, you don't have the skills and knowledge to do what you need to use these tools. (BTW: IF you follow the OpenBSD philosophy, your first goal will be to bring the system to native building as your first major task.) If your machine is too slow to do what you need it to do, you need a faster machine. Cross compiling is not the answer to your problem. OpenBSD developers have certain goals in their life; helping people who don't know what they are doing to do things they shouldn't be is NOT one of them. Which would you rather have developers doing...adding new features, cleaning up code, improving existing operation...or helping <insert adjective here> users do silly things with no value added to the project? Nick.
