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Background

Although Mandrake Linux 9.0 is a POSIX platform, the cross compilation of NetBSD was not totally painless. A few changes to the tree were necessary (which will be filed as a problem report) to get it to compile.

The information here includes the patch for the source tree, as well as commands that were used to build the tools, userland binaries and the kernel under Mandrake Linux 9.0.

The Source Tree Patch

Download

• linux-20030527.patch: Patch for -current (May 27, 2003)

Installation

To install the patch, execute the following command:

patch -p0 < linux-20030527.patch

Build Commands

Tools & Userland

The tools and userland build requires LIBC and LIBM to be defined to be empty strings. This can be achieved from the command line as follows:

./build.sh -T ~/NetBSD/ibmnws/tools \
           -O ~/NetBSD/ibmnws/obj \
           -D ~/NetBSD/ibmnws/root \
           -U -m ibmnws \
           -V LIBC= -V LIBM= \
           build

Obviously, change the pathnames and platform name (ibmnws in the above example) to suit your requirements.

Kernel

The kernel build will work in exactly the same way as building it on a NetBSD system:

./build.sh -T ~/NetBSD/ibmnws/tools \
           -O ~/NetBSD/ibmnws/obj \
           -D ~/NetBSD/ibmnws/root \
           -U -m ibmnws \
           kernel=IBMNWS

Feedback

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-- JohnGordon - 28 May 2003