Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:03:00 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cross compiling for i386 Message-ID: <20050215200300.GC89396@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050215195639.GB17904@ip.net.ua> References: <20050215141155.GA29160@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <20050215170716.GB38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050215195639.GB17904@ip.net.ua>
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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)
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