Re: Cross compiling for evbarm on amd64

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 07:28:57AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> I don't know how well cross-compile pkgsrc works, but years ago I was
> trying to use a cross-compile to build various open source packages by
> hand and it sucked big time, because much of the software
> configure/build scripts were not designed for cross-compilation, so
> something somewhere was always failing. In the end, I always build
> natively, may a take a bit of time on slow platforms like Sun Ultra10,
> but saves a lot of hassle on build errors like your describe above.

Thanks. Sharing of first hand experience always helps. Wish more list
members share their experiences.

If it works well (by putting in more work as needed) it will be a big
thing for smaller devices like pi and so forth.

Mayuresh