Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:09:01 -0400 From: Simon Chang <sector214@gmail.com> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Correct procedure for cross-compilation Message-ID: <AANLkTi=jwffOn%2B4Q8e7afcvzdztNFvjM7rak3-=HjORQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim=6pmnmObJjfCu0pon9QtN8_yOht9FT203bf3T@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikLRCZFyw=4yiv8ywk_%2Be5zYSM30rCca9OXDeO-@mail.gmail.com> <4CC1A850.5060601@icyb.net.ua> <AANLkTi=O2FhZtCDNvg1v%2BkU28XoPQmDL7Xaww64wV2UO@mail.gmail.com> <4CC1BDBE.2020008@icyb.net.ua> <AANLkTikt-gMkdNCPkzw5cWPOxHZJeANgJbYOi9DhE2CY@mail.gmail.com> <4CC1F45E.3060803@icyb.net.ua> <AANLkTikKHxPwkMKJ4==jxb6UVttzVwmvzGvM-1vK2=9y@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim=6pmnmObJjfCu0pon9QtN8_yOht9FT203bf3T@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Simon Chang <sector214@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK... except that this flies in the face of this part from the Handbook: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html > > > That part in the handbook only works when both the build machine and > the target machines are running the same O/S arch (i.e. i386). > > > Also, if you are right, where should I run mergemaster??? > > > You can run mergemaster from either the build machine or the target > machine. The target machine would need to have the /usr/src NFS > mounted. > > To use mergemaster on the build machine use: > > mergemaster -A i386 -D /path/to/nfs/mnt/ > > Scot > Great, thank you Scot and Andriy for your suggestions. While I am very comfortable with the build procedure for single arch/cputype, I am relatively new to cross compiling. I will put your advice to use and let you know if I run into problems. Cheers! SC
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