cross-compiling for arm6 with poudriere - has anybody done that?

[Christopher J. Ruwe]

I am cc'ing the persons originally describing a solution for my
problem. 

I would like to cross-compile packages for FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi
(arm6) on a stronger machine.

Various web-sources describe how to cross-compile kernel and world for
arm6/RaspberryPi [1,2,3]. Roughly a year ago, reportedly, ports have
been build successfully in chrooted environments, but have failed in
poudriere jails [4,5].

I have not found any more recent information on that approach. From
[5] i gather the issue in [4] has been fixed, so I will try to employ
poudriere to build packages for my raspberry on a stronger machine.

My idea is outlined as such: Build a 9.2-RELEASE jail, cross-compile a
arm6 obj tree in that jail and set poudriere make.conf options to 
TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv6 TARGET_CPUARCH=armv6
PATH=/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/tmp/usr/bin:${PATH} CONFIGURE_HOST=amd64
STRIP_CMD=true

Has anybody tried a similar approach or can comment on my idea? Should
that be pointless, I do not want to waste much time trying.


[1] crochet-freebsd: https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd
[2] FreeBSD developer's notebook: http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=275
[3] How to install FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi (or: How to cross compile
    FreeBSD/arm): http://ogris.de/howtos/freebsd-raspberry.html
[4] yerenkow at gmail.com, Ports cross-compiling:
    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-September/040428.html
[5] crees at freebsd.org, Ports cross-compiling:
    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-November/041106.html 


Many thanks,
-- 
Christopher
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