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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.bayarea.net!baygate.bayarea.net!thorpej From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: How to build NetBSD on a sparc? Date: 15 Feb 1997 04:32:37 GMT Organization: George's NetBSD answer man Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5e3e95$lif@news.bayarea.net> References: <3304CB86.2592@transition.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: baygate.bayarea.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5366 In article <3304CB86.2592@transition.com>, Dan A. Dickey <ddickey@transition.com> wrote: >Hi, I've downloaded the NetBSD-Current source; and would like to >build it to run on a Sparc IPX I have. There doesn't seem to be >much documentation around that I can find that tells me how to do >this. I looked through the FAQ's that I could find too. Probably the easiest way to do this is to install NetBSD 1.2 on your system, and then compile the sources... You may want to subscribe to port-sparc@netbsd.org (send mail to majordomo@netbsd.org). >I'm not new to building stuff off of the net. Can someone give >me a few pointers as to how to get started with NetBSD? >Thanks. -Dan Basically, you go to the top of the source tree (typically /usr/src), and type "make build" ... you have to be root to do this, as it needs to install libraries and include files... Anyhow, subscribe to port-sparc, there's loads of folks there who can help w/ sparc stuff.. Ciao. -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@bayarea.net>