Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:04:28 +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: <20050216000428.GC24447@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20050215234825.GA96584@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050215141155.GA29160@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <20050215195517.GA17904@ip.net.ua> <20050215234825.GA96584@dragon.nuxi.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:48:25PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:55:17PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:11:55PM +0000, David Taylor wrote: > > > Is this supposed to be possible/supported? And does anyone have any ideas > > > how to make it work more automatically? > > > > No, this is not supported at all. What's supported is mounting i386's > > /, /usr, and /var onto /mnt, /mnt/usr, and /mnt/var, and doing the > > installworld with DESTDIR=/mnt from amd64. > > This isn't "supported" either. It happens to work most of the time. > But isn't a guaranteed by The FreeBSD Project. > Cross-built binaries should be fine. Some data files generated by host tools may be corrupt due to endianness and type width issues (e.g., "long" is 8 bytes on amd64 but only 4 bytes on i386). Last time I tried installing Alpha world + kernel generated by i386, the only things I've noticed broken were NLS catalogs and locale related data files. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCEo4MqRfpzJluFF4RAjc/AJ40CRCWTtxk3rbRFENUf0BlcNv9DQCdEBTp couNyRxgHBAkcTyFGu0wFuo= =PE5/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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