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Subject: Re: Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary?
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On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:52:30PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> I think we need to update compat5x binary to fix FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl,
> but will the binaries built by ``make universe'' be identical with actual
> build on Alpha, Sparc64, etc?  (Yes, I'm volunteering to do the work iff
> they are identical ;-)

We should no trust cross built libraries for this purpose at this time.
We really don't know how identical the results will be to being natively
built.
 
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