Cross build of i386 on 7.0 fails

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 25 January 2008 10:36:14 am Steven Hartland wrote:
> I'm sure I must be missing something simple but I've searched google
> and the mail archives and cant find the answer to this.
> 
> When trying to build i386 targets in amd64 buildkernel fails with the
> following:-
> > make buildkernel TARGET=i386
> ....
> >>> stage 3.1: making dependencies
> ...
> /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/genassym.c:1: error: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 is 
not between 4 and 12
> 
> What I think is happening is that something is still working as though
> I want amd64 bins and hence the error. Is this the case? What am I
> missing?
> 
> On an related topic upgrading i386 boxes to amd64 and vice versa from
> source is this possible, if so how. I tried installing a new amd64
> ( 7.0 ) kernel on my test i386 ( 6.2 ) machine but boot failed with:
> init died ( signal 0, exit 1 )
> 
> I'm sure this is FAQ but again searching google and mail lists didn't

Did you do 'make TARGET=i386 kernel-toolchain' (or buildworld or toolchain) 
first?

-- 
John Baldwin