Ports cross-compilation

[Stefan Bethke]

Am 01.12.2011 um 05:06 schrieb Oleksandr Tymoshenko:

> I've been tinkering with ports cross-compilation for a couple of days and decided to summarize this experience. It might start some discussion, or, with any luck, some action.

Excellent points!

> - Package builder works only on installed port.

Have you looked at pkgng yet?  The wiki page says it can create a package from a separate directory tree.

> - Makefile for cross-compilable port should be split into three parts:
>  common, native, cross. It's not clear who should maintain cross part
>  though.

From many previous discussions, people are reluctant to add files to all ports because of the filesystem and VCS bloat that causes.  Also, considering the number of ports there are in the tree, and how well maintained many of the lesser ones are, any solution that requires no or very little changes to each port would stand a much bigger chance of being implemented successfully.

Has anyone set up a ports build for mips yet, perhaps in an emulator?  It would be very interesting to see which ports build at all on mips.

(I naively installed editors/joe from my TL-WR1043ND, which took about a day mainly because it pulls in perl, and the perl build tools grow to around 100 MB memory size.  Most of the time was spent paging…)


Stefan

-- 
Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de>   Fon +49 151 14070811