suicidally ambitious compilation?

[markzero]

> > 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

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