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Date:      Fri, 14 May 2004 14:53:39 +0100
From:      Daniel Bye <daniel.bye@psineteurope.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cross building ports
Message-ID:  <20040514135339.GA56256@ip48.ops.uk.psi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040514094552.GA57101@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20040513163653.GA40144@ip48.ops.uk.psi.com> <20040513200434.GA8931@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040514084411.GA46715@ip48.ops.uk.psi.com> <20040514094552.GA57101@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:45:52AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Rats!  That's what I was afraid of.  Will have to see if I can get my 
> > hands on an i386 package builder...
> 
> You can always just download the prebuilt packages from the ftp site..
> 
> If you really want to use your amd64 machine to build i386 packages,
> you can boot it in i386 mode (i.e. install a partition with a copy of
> FreeBSD/i386) and use that to build them.

Yep, could do.  However, we need certain customisations for several
packages, which makes it impractical in our case.  I have an i386 machine I
can put to good use to build packages, so a solution is in sight.

Thanks for your time,

Dan



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