Cross compile FreeBSD on amd64 for arm64 failes via compile determination error

[Mark Murray]

> On 6 Jun 2020, at 00:25, Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> You cannot do that.  The installworld process uses a path that points
> into the obj tree that got built (so that new binaries are used to do
> the install work), and those binaries are compiled for the arch that
> did the build.

That is my experience.

I used to work around a closely related problem when I built build* on
a fast machine, and did the install* on the slow ones. As I was using
automounts, I ended up with incompatible paths baked into the build,
so I worked around those with symlinks.

I never tried this with anything other than i386/i386 or amd64/amd64,
so the above is interesting. Could a viable cross-build* be "fixed" by
symlinks, and somehow and easily forcing a cross-build of the bootstrap
tools?

My RPis wish to know :-)

M
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