cross building i386 on amd64

[Eugene Grosbein]

17.04.2021 0:22, Peter Blok wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m cross building 12-STABLE i386 on a 12-STABLE amd64 system. Sources are refreshed every day.
> 
> Build runs fine and put everything in the right directory. For the target i386 system it is in /usr/obj/i386TARGET.
> 
> Next I NFS mount the source /on /usr/src and /usr/obj/i386TARGET on /usr/obj on the target machine
> 
> When I run make installworld it will use install from /usr/obj/usr/src/i386.i386/tmp/legacy/usr/bin because it is the first install it finds in the PATH set by installworld. This tanks because install is compiled for amd64.
> 
> I understand why the legacy path is compiled for amd64. This is needed to build a distribution.
> 
> So is this is bug or is the way I distribute the objects not supported?

It was never supported. But, you will be fine doing it othe way: running "make installworld"
using same system you used to run "make buildworld". NFS-export i386 system to build host
and run both build and install there.