From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 12:23:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E031065734 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces+73574-b3e9-freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@sendgrid.me) Received: from o7.shared.sendgrid.net (o7.shared.sendgrid.net [74.63.235.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BC6F8FC17 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:23:22 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sendgrid.info; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpapi; bh=6k4tCx+AXBxNYxcjvkpIR6aQpQU=; b=RzGDSjmcunP00wfmo2auCpzXsgXG QEBiThvx67Cu0Z9bWnY+ixOpkcFh09j3elMk1K3BHlbM7R43CighwZAlie33o2Tq cVZhFiovTqNXefSiRbNTfqRFltP5uxf2mghU8XdSWO/vw3a4GvWj3gbi8AHXiWhg LyltXRfAgEdokvs= Received: by 10.8.40.13 with SMTP id mf11.11676.4F1AAE3A4 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:23:22 -0600 (CST) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (unknown [10.9.180.5]) by mi2 (SG) with ESMTP id 4f1aae3a.2695.2c39982 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:23:22 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 22827 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2012 12:21:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.tarsnap.com with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2012 12:21:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 25372 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2012 12:21:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 21 Jan 2012 12:21:02 -0000 Message-ID: <4F1AADAE.5060003@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:21:02 -0800 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111112 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christer Solskogen References: <4F1AA495.6040906@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sendgrid-EID: FFnPVu6lb0A5TuepcCdqxLOfczNEIxluOZzq9GOc07ryAPeByqssQ0je/6ICti6H8FSIo3ZOUFIW0CZG0t2lzwPmCv75WIlWopUKVaSYq03OcnRMAncsBdNjcYhNWrilw3CBa6qRxcSF/ZuZz18DXwIsbdO2yG7vsuceCPM51S0= Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: freebsd-update and archs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:23:23 -0000 On 01/21/12 04:15, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >> We don't have suitable build hardware for other architectures, and there are >> some problems with release cross-building which aren't fixed yet. > > I found out that building ppc with TARGET= worked nicely on 9.0-RELEASE. > Do you know what problems? Maybe I can help. IIRC there were some data files (fortunes? magic? something like that...) which had platform-specific formats (presumably pointer size and endianness issues) and didn't have properly crossing build tools. It's possible that these have been fixed by now, though. Try doing a release cross-build and compare it against a non-crossed release build; extract the built tarballs and send me a list of which ones aren't identical. I know which files "normally" build differently so I can look over the list and tell you if there's something which shouldn't be there. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid