Correct procedure for cross-compilation
Simon Chang
sector214 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 23 02:35:21 UTC 2010
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> on 22/10/2010 21:51 Simon Chang said the following:
> >
> >
> > I got your point the first time.
> > The idea is to run installworld on your fast machine. You did
> everything
> > correctly for the build, BTW.
> > I guess that you should be able now to see how to use DESTDIR in that
> case :-)
> >
> > P.S. there is something unconventional about how your mail client
> handles
> > quoting
> > of replied to emails.
> > --
> > Andriy Gapon
> >
> >
> > Andriy,
> >
> > 1) About mail client: Sorry, but I am just using GMail's interface to
> email
> > with you. Nothing weird here.
>
> Weird things for my personal taste:
> 1. quotes are not attributed (as in "NNN wrote:")
> 2. quote marker is some form of whitespace (tab?)
> 3. signature is not dropped
>
> GMail or not, there are some conventions and it is inconvenient for other
> people
> when they are ignored. Perhaps the style is customizable?
>
> > 2) Based on what you are saying, am I correct that I should export the
> root
> > from the slower machine, and then use installworld/kernel on the fast
> machine
> > while setting DESTDIR=/ ???
>
> Yes, exactly.
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon
>
OK... except that this flies in the face of this part from the Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html
Also, if you are right, where should I run mergemaster???
SC
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