Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:37:42 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jonathan Dama <jd@caltech.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cross-building ports Message-ID: <20050113213742.GA87254@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050113212717.GC16747@philemon.caltech.edu> References: <20050113204724.GB16747@philemon.caltech.edu> <20050113210844.GA78383@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050113212717.GC16747@philemon.caltech.edu>
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--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:27:17PM -0800, Jonathan Dama wrote: > Thanks for clarifying that I wasn't just missing the > obvious. I suppose that's not surprising given all the > complicated things some builds do to configure themselves > based on testing the environment. >=20 > What about the "simple" case of building ia32 on an amd64 > host? (Assuming WITH_LIB32 has been set in make.conf) >=20 > I have the impression that amd64 has been setup with an=20 > eye toward running a pure amd64 setup, but one of the > principle benefits of amd64 is it's support for i386 > binaries and libraries... >=20 > It would be nice (and probably easier on many ports) if the > system was geared to have more ia32 centric userland--which > I might add is the tradition for mang 64-bit OSs. Having my > 64-bit ls is great and all, but really unnecessary + > wasteful. >=20 > Are these sorts of changes in the pipeline or? I don't believe anyone is working on it, but you can always just use precompiled packages. Kris --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB5uomWry0BWjoQKURAgfYAJ9/ik8A2ujq9Lgji3cEnrJ6wvMM/ACg0Qf2 yOgz0Y7SES90yLqPGeACiUM= =Yp9q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--
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