Re: cross compile...

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:04:55 -0400, "George Georgalis" 
<george%galis.org@localhost>
wrote:

> I have a (1Ghz i386) box with a cflash for a hard drive. I've
> used nfs to mount the entire filesystem on a much faster (amd64)
> computer with regular disks.
> 
> I'm able to cross-compile and install world (netbsd) on the cflash
> computer from the amd64, over nfs, works great. But it's not clear
> how to build packages on the amd64 and install them over nfs on
> the i386.
> 
> My sense is that I can do it by setting various parameters and
> env; but the method is not described in pkgsrc.txt, that I can
> see. How difficult is this to setup? How is it done?
> 
> Presently I'm nfs mounting a pkgsrc checkout from the amd64
> (with a regular disk) and doing the make install on the 1Ghz
> i386. Simple, slow, but works. I'm about to do a Q2 to 2006Q3
> update. Will cross compile be easier in Q3?
> 
My understanding is that in general, one can't cross-compile packages
across different architectures. 


                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb