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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:26:56PM -0800, Ajay.Matai@nokia.com wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
> I wanted to find out if FreeBSD ports has the infrastructure to
> cross-compile the packages.

Not really.

> The target platform for me would be x86 based one.
> The host is also x86 running FreeBSD 6.0

You can build in a chroot populated by your desired release of FreeBSD.

Kris

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