From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 19:56:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CC416A4CE; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:56:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua (tigra.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9557B43D1D; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:56:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from localhost (rocky.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.2]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1FJuZlQ028719; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:56:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua ([82.193.96.10]) by localhost (rocky.ipnet [82.193.96.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 70141-12; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:56:35 +0200 (EET) Received: from heffalump.ip.net.ua (heffalump.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.213]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1FJuZbu028716 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:56:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by heffalump.ip.net.ua (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1FJudAC017998; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:56:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:56:39 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "David O'Brien" Message-ID: <20050215195639.GB17904@ip.net.ua> References: <20050215141155.GA29160@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <20050215170716.GB38158@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050215170716.GB38158@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ip.net.ua cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cross compiling for i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:56:37 -0000 --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:07:16AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:11:55PM +0000, David Taylor wrote: > > I also have an i386 workstation, which is significantly slower at build= ing > > world. I tried to cross-build the world on the amd64 box, then install= it > > over an NFS mount. >=20 > To date we've never guaranteed that a cross-arch built world is usable. > We only officially support cross-arch compiles for compile testing. There > are other things in the tree that aren't size & endian-clean that prevent > usable cross-arch release builds. >=20 > Many (?most?) of the result from a cross-arch 'make buildworld' are > usable on the target arch; but small nuances cause the total of the > result to not really be usable. >=20 I'm working on this. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCElP3qRfpzJluFF4RAkIwAJ9ZOmn/24tP+lEaokgt6ok6J9ip9wCfczKe U9GRbGMRI8BYT95Pjhgl/d4= =ngo6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx--