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From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 4 Sep 1995 02:44:57 GMT
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In article <42c18e$eg7@klaava.helsinki.fi>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
>
>Linux/alpha and Linux/i386 share the same source tree: you need to edit
>the top-level Makefile (change ARCH=i386 to ARCH=alpha) to compile the
>standard 1.3.22 kernel on the alpha. 

If I compile a full i386 kernel, and then change the ARCH in the
makefile and compile an Alpha kernel, do I still have my 386 kernel
and all its object files?

Or in other words, can I cross compile from a platform where I also
compile native systems for that platform?

cjs
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