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

Gordon Bergling gbergling at googlemail.com
Sat Jun 6 13:30:32 UTC 2020


On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 02:07:49PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> > On 6 Jun 2020, at 13:36, Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Or you could just `make packages` on your fast builder machine and then
> > use pkg(8) to install on your slow machines.
> > 
> > Either NFS mount the repository directory, or stand up a fairly simple
> > webserver to provide the packages over your network.
> > 
> > This also will allow you to prune out a lot of debug symbols and other
> > bits and pieces you probably won't want eating up space on something
> > like an RPi
> 
> These are the sorts of things that I'm doing.
> 
> But I'm lazy, and would prefer to do less :-)
> 
> M
> --

The distribution of packages should be possible, but I think that if a crossbuild
is possible it should also be possible to make a installation via a NFS share since
it works well on amd64. That's properly a good freetime project for myself, once I
am finished with my manpage todos. ;-)

Kind regards,

Gordon


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