Cross compiling for i386

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:07:16AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:11:55PM +0000, David Taylor wrote:
> > I also have an i386 workstation, which is significantly slower at building
> > world.  I tried to cross-build the world on the amd64 box, then install it
> > over an NFS mount.
> 
> To date we've never guaranteed that a cross-arch built world is usable.
> We only officially support cross-arch compiles for compile testing.  There
> are other things in the tree that aren't size & endian-clean that prevent
> usable cross-arch release builds.
> 
> Many (?most?) of the result from a cross-arch 'make buildworld' are
> usable on the target arch; but small nuances cause the total of the
> result to not really be usable.
> 
I'm working on this.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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