Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:46:08 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port to package amd64 to i386 Message-ID: <4F551800.4080904@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <4F54EF7A.2030109@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4F547C59.1040604@bananmonarki.se> <4F548571.1050203@gmail.com> <4F54ED12.1090409@bananmonarki.se> <4F54EF7A.2030109@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 05/03/2012 16:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 05/03/2012 16:42, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> >> Thank you for the pointer. I do find it a bit overkill to setup jails >> and such, just to build a few ports. I was thinking more along the line of; >> >> cd /usr/ports/"random port" >> >> make "it for i386 even if we are building it on amd64, ooh by the way >> build it as a package, and all dependencies as packages as well" > > About the only way to cross-build ports is to set up a 32-bit jail on a > 64-bit host. I believe that is do-able, but I could be delusional. Could you do it in a tinderbox? This thread http://www.marcuscom.com/pipermail/tinderbox-list/2011-June/002177.html discusses it a bit with a possible solution. Things have probably moved on since then which may or may not help. Chris
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