> > I'm thinking of setting up a jail specifically to try and compile an > > OpenBSD release on FreeBSD. No 'cross compiling' will be involved (same > > target hardware architecture). > > > > Has anybody here ever tried, or heard of anybody trying this? > > > > I don't expect the journey to be without large potholes... > > That won't work. A jail is not something like vmware. It's > just a FreeBSD inside a FreeBSD. > I used emulators/qemu to install NetBSD into an > image file from the installation cd. That worked for me > as long as I did not try to start X inside qemu. > So I think that OpenBSD will work too. > (Interestingly the Knoppix live-cd runs emulated > even in graphics mode!)
Hi. I should have explained myself a little better. What I'm actually trying to do is compile a minimal OpenBSD snapshot so that I can distribute binaries to my very slow firewall machine (which also lacks a compiler, for security reasons). The jail is purely there because the OpenBSD compilation process seems to make the assumption that it's working in /usr/src so I thought it would be a good idea to partition the process off from the rest of the system. M -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1
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