Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary?

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 27 12:41:47 PDT 2005


On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:11PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-Oct-23 16:29:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> >We should no trust cross built libraries for this purpose at this time.
> >We really don't know how identical the results will be to being natively
> >built.
> 
> At some stage, we need to validate our cross-build chain with cmp(1).
> We can probably leverage off the work that NetBSD has done in this
> area.  This would significantly simplify the work involved in supporting
> the various architectures.
> 
This has already been and being done.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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