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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:12:25 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cross compiling for i386
Message-ID:  <20050215201225.GC17904@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20050215200300.GC89396@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20050215141155.GA29160@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <20050215170716.GB38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050215195639.GB17904@ip.net.ua> <20050215200300.GC89396@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:03:00PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> 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.
>  
Sure.  amd64 <-> i386 is my first target.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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