Get teh 'bin' distribution from a 2.2 CD
(or even possibly still online somewhere..)
unpack it on a machine....
chroot into it...
all binaries shuold still work except for 'ps' etc.
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> Hi fellow -hackers--
>
> I need to make an executable to run on an i386 box running FreeBSD 2.2.X
> machine. Unfortunately, it has no compiler installed on it. All of the
> computers I have at my disposal currently are i386s running 4-STABLE or
> 5-CURRENT. Upgrading the target machine is not an option.
>
> Is it even possible to try doing a "cross-compile" to such an old
> version of FreeBSD? (I'm primarily thinking of a.out vs. ELF issues...a
> quick experiment already informed me that I'm lacking an appropriate
> crt0.o.)
>
> Or am I better off trying somehow to build up a 2.2.X machine to do
> development on?
>
> Thanks for any insights...
>
> Bruce.
>
>
>
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