Cross buildworld on amd64 for i386 errors

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm trying to build an i386 buildworld on an amd64 system.
>> I'm at r294370.
>>
>> This is what I've tried so far:
>>
>>   make TARGET_ARCH=i386 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/opt/foo/obj.x86 -j8 buildworld
>>   make TARGET=i386 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/opt/foo/obj.x86 -j8 buildworld
>>
>> Neither of which work.  They both result in the error below.  What
>> is the standard procedure for cross-building i386 from amd64?
>>
>
> It looks like you are not alone in encountering these problems.
> For this build set up by Li-Wen Hsu:
> https://jenkins.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD_HEAD_i386
>
> he downloads this image
> http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/10.2-RELEASE/base.txz
> and then extracts that to create an i386 jail, where the build is performed
> on an amd64 host.

I guess there was a real compilation bug in the version of
-stable that I first used.  After updating from r294370 to
r294747, the problem seems to have been fixed.  FYI, the
following worked:

   make TARGET_ARCH=i386 -j4 buildworld

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