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compiling on FreeBSD6 or 7 for target FreeBSD4 possible?

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Marc Santhoff

Hi,

for some reason I have to have a compiler creating binaries for FreeBSD all computers around here are on the way to FreeBSD 6 or 7 I have to decide between having a seperate disk or partition or virtual machine for FreeBSD 4 and setting up a build environment running on v6 and creating binaries for v4.

Is the latter generally possible?

TIA,
Marc

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Boris Samorodov
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for some reason I have to have a compiler creating binaries for FreeBSD 4 at hand. Since all computers around here are on the way to FreeBSD 6 or 7 I have to decide between having a seperate disk or partition or virtual machine for FreeBSD 4 and setting up a build environment running on v6 and creating binaries for v4. Is the latter generally possible?

We use a FreeBSD-current host with ports-mgmt/tinderbox to create packages for 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and 8.x. While CURRENT was 7.x we used to package for 4.x as well. You may create a local port of your software and package it for all versions at one host.

HTH and WBR

Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve

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Marc Santhoff
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Boris Samorodov wrote 16 lines
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:39:55 +0200 Marc Santhoff wrote: > for some reason I have to have a compiler creating binaries for FreeBSD > 4 at hand. > Since all computers around here are on the way to FreeBSD 6 or 7 I have > to decide between having a seperate disk or partition or virtual machine > for FreeBSD 4 and setting up a build environment running on v6 and > creating binaries for v4. > Is the latter generally possible? We use a FreeBSD-current host with ports-mgmt/tinderbox to create packages for 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and 8.x. While CURRENT was 7.x we used to package for 4.x as well. You may create a local port of your software and package it for all versions at one host.

Sounds like it's a good idea - making a port of it is on my list a long time.

At least I will not try to do some cross-os-version-compiling, I'd rather use a bootable thumbdrive containing a complete freebsd 4 ...

Thank you,
Marc

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