-current cross compile for -stable

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:19:42PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > On 8/28/07, LI Xin <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
> > > Danny Braniss wrote:
> > > > till now I used a stable box to cross compile for other
> > > > arch/stable|current.  today i decided to try out -current as  a
> > > > base to cross compile. does it work? since i get:
> > > >
> > > > export MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/r+d/obj/cs4
> > > > cd /r+d/6.2/src; make  TARGET_ARCH=amd64 buildworld
> > > > ...
> > > This won't work.  In order to build -STABLE you have to install a
> > > chrooted RELENG_6 environment and chroot into it to make it work.
> > 
> > I think there is a hack for ports' tinderbox, patch is at
> > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/binutils.diff
> > Not sure it appears in ports@ mailing or tinderbox's.
> 
> well, I can confirm that it works. 1)I'm now testing the result
> by  using the result to make buildworld - goto 1 :-).
> 
> so, if it works for tinderbox, and for me, can it be 'installed'?

There's no reason to - if you want to build RELENG_6 on a 7.x box, you
should have RELENG_6 chroot to do so.  You'll just keep running into
problems as we don't support builds the way you're trying.
 
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