From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 20:03:00 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 BB02016A4CE; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:03:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82ED643D49; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:03:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1FK30mY089726; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:03:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1FK3056089725; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:03:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:03:00 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Ruslan Ermilov Message-ID: <20050215200300.GC89396@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050215141155.GA29160@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <20050215170716.GB38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050215195639.GB17904@ip.net.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050215195639.GB17904@ip.net.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org 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 20:03:00 -0000 On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:56:39PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > 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 building > > > world. I tried to cross-build the world on the amd64 box, then install it > > > over an NFS mount. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > I'm working on this. I know. But currently this still falls into "Provisionally Supported". It would be nice if it fully worked. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)