building ports for ARM

[David Cornejo]

was afraid of this, with one of the netgate avila boards, some ports 
are taking days to compile due to swapping.

barring cross-compiling, does anyone have a binary package 
repository, or might be interested in one?

dave c

At 12:05 AM 2/28/2007, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>In message: <45e53301.5e2ca738.28ab.2d6c at mx.google.com>
>             David Cornejo <dave at dogwood.com> writes:
>: Is there some generic way to cross-compile ports for the ARM?  Some
>: ports seem to be ok by overriding the CC/LD/etc. definitions, but
>: others attempt to build stuff using compiled binaries...
>
>No.
>
>There's some things that can be done to make this process easier.
>However, there are four kinds of ports: simple, host tools needed and
>no cross support, with broken cross support, with working cross
>support.
>
>Only the first and the last can work.  The last works by telling
>config to use its cross config to build.  The first works by telling
>it to use ALL tools for cross build.
>
>I have a bunch of patches to install the cross tools into
>/usr/arm-freebsd so that autoconfig for the working ports can work,
>and a string of CC=, LD=, etc can work for the simple ports.  I've not
>had time to integrate those into the tree yet.  I also have some
>half-assed patches to ports as of about 4.8 that can help a little,
>but that don't apply cleanly to present ports...
>
>Warner