Re: Binary packages for NetBSD/m68k 3.0 w/ pkgsrc-2006Q1
"Bruce O'Neel" <[email protected]> Thu, 11 May 2006 13:43:59 +0000
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Hi, On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:29:31AM -0600, Greg Oster wrote: > > Packages for 2.1 would be useful for this reason too. > > > > Is there anything special required to build generic m68k packages as > > opposed to mac68k/amiga/next68k/etc packages? > > Nope. > There might be a misconception here. Once you are running NetBSD on machine X and you don't depend on hardware specific features of machine X, the same binary (not kernel, binaries such as ls, mv, less, xemacs) will run on machine Y assuming that they have the same CPU (basically). This means that a binary built on the amiga will run fine on the 68k macs. A binary built on a PPC prep machine will run fine on a PowerMac, etc. If you tell the compiler that you are going to build for the 68040 for example then it only will work on the other systems with an 040, not with a 030. cheers bruce -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org