From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri May 14 06:53:32 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654B316A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 14 May 2004 06:53:32 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from md1.psixpress.com (md1.psixpress.com [154.32.105.205])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94C543D2F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 14 May 2004 06:53:31 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from danielby@ip48.ops.uk.psi.com)
Received: from ip48.ops.uk.psi.com (ip48.ops.uk.psi.com [154.8.22.48])
	by md1.psixpress.com (MOS 3.4.4-GR)
	with ESMTP id BBI41127 (AUTH via LOGINBEFORESMTP);
	Fri, 14 May 2004 14:53:28 +0100 (BST)
Received: from danielby by ip48.ops.uk.psi.com with local (Exim 4.34; FreeBSD)
	id 1BOd87-000EqQ-Jb
	for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 14:53:39 +0100
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:53:39 +0100
From: Daniel Bye <daniel.bye@psineteurope.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20040514135339.GA56256@ip48.ops.uk.psi.com>
Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.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>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20040514094552.GA57101@xor.obsecurity.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i
Subject: Re: Cross building ports
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:53:32 -0000

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