Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:21:02 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update and archs Message-ID: <4F1AADAE.5060003@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAMVU60aJVjrEM6UgMqXjUO41dAUcFvHGLmHkC2h0CFSVsq2_Pg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMVU60YhDcrP1ypZszPTYo800tae2BoUvvOa9AcZRqE2xUgDQQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F1AA495.6040906@freebsd.org> <CAMVU60aJVjrEM6UgMqXjUO41dAUcFvHGLmHkC2h0CFSVsq2_Pg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/21/12 04:15, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> 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
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