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Subject: Re: Ports cross-compilation
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On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:44:49AM +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>> Has anyone set up a ports build for mips yet, perhaps in an emulator?
> 
> Someone asked me about building in an emulator (I think it was arm) a
> couple of months ago, as they had an emulator instance up and running.
> Unfortunately I task-switched without writing down who that was.
> 
> If anyone has instances available, we can give it a shot.  The newer
> codebase on pointyhat-west can be told "build only this list of ports".
> Of course, the Right solution is to add some kind of metadata.  I've
> toyed with the idea of how to do that but don't have any concrete idea.

Well, the ONLY_FOR_ARCH stuff might be a good first-order clue.

Warner