Cross compiling FreeBSD

[Christian Kratzer]

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Andrew Hotlab wrote:
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> Sorry for my stupid question: I'll do the right thing if I'll build an i386 jail chroot/jail on the
> amd64 builder host with the following commands? (grabbed from the FreeBSD Handbook)
> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildworld TARGET=i386
> # make installworld TARGET=i386 DESTDIR=/path-to-jail
> # cd etc/
> # make distribution DESTDIR=/path-to-jail
> # mount -t devfs devfs /path-to-jail/dev

yes that should do it but I think you can skip the cd etc/ part.
make distribution should work from /usr/src

>> The hack to enable building in an i386 chroot is to set UNAME_m
>> and UNAME_p to i386. I use following in the chroots .cshrc
>>
>> setenv UNAME_m i386
>> setenv UNAME_p i386
>>
>> This will avoid any crossbuild magic and you will be able to build
>> as if on an i386 machine.
>>
>> This of course only works for the amd64, i386 combination.
> Wonderful, I'll try this as soon as possible. Thank you!

let us know if it works out.

Greetings
Christian

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