Re: Query on gnu toolset

["Aaron J. Grier" <aaron at frye dot com>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:54:19AM -0800, Immani Venkat wrote:
> You would be duplicating NetBSD's effort trying to port FreeBSD to
> MIPS.

not really... FreeBSD and NetBSD may be distant cousins, but they are
separate software projects with separate design goals.

> There ``a NetBSD port for MIPS''.
> Checkout:  
> http://www.NetBSD.org/
> http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/mipsco/

I run NetBSD on my MIPS-based DECStations.

> Afaik, NetBSD for MIPS ships with the appropriate gnu toolset.

there currently is a push by NetBSD developers to bring up-to-date GNU
tools into NetBSD.  look for posts from Rafal Boni on the binutils list.

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  Aaron J. Grier  |   Frye Electronics, Tigard, OR   |  aaron@frye.com
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       wondering how on earth the first computer was invented and
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