Confused about ARM64 cross-compilation

[Ian Lepore]

On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 18:21 -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> I am brand new to the FreeBSD world, and I'm trying to debug problems
> in booting FreeBSD on a new ARM64 system with ACPI.
> 
> I've installed FreeBSD 11 on an x86 system, and I followed the
> instructions on https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/crossbuild to
> download the source code.  Then I download arm64_build.sh from
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64 and run that.  Now it's building
> something, but I don't know what it's doing.  Shouldn't I need to
> install a cross-compiler first?
> 

Nope, the freebsd build process is completely self-contained.  It
starts by building whatever cross-compiler it needs if crossbuilding is
involved.

-- Ian