Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:14:39 +0100 From: Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update and archs Message-ID: <CAMVU60bqAD1-MqjjTqB3xOc8B1VNg0wWRzrt1L4OmcaBPUUc1A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F1A98E5.2060207@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAMVU60YhDcrP1ypZszPTYo800tae2BoUvvOa9AcZRqE2xUgDQQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F1A98E5.2060207@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 21/01/2012 10:25, Christer Solskogen wrote: >> I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my "new" Mac mini G4, and >> when I ran freebsd-update on it I found out that freebsd-update only >> supports i386 and amd64 architectures. >> How come? > > If that's not an Intel based Mac, then your definition of "new" is, > well, contrary to all accepted usage. > That's why I said "new" and not new :-) > Tier-2 architectures aren't supported by freebsd-update for two reasons: > > =C2=A0* Lack of available hardware for build systems for freebsd-update > =C2=A0 =C2=A0to use. =C2=A0Not entirely sure what the status of cross-com= pilation is > =C2=A0 =C2=A0at the moment, but I believe the best results are still obta= ined by > =C2=A0 =C2=A0compiling natively. > Perhaps. But building 9.0-RELEASE with TARGET=3D worked perfectly :) --=20 chs,
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