Cross compiling for i386

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 15 12:14:56 PST 2005


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 at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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