John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2010 11:00:28 am Colin Percival wrote: >> I think the best approach towards having FreeBSD Update support for >> sparc64 is to get release cross-building working; that way we would >> be able to use amd64 hardware, which I think we can safely assume >> will continue to be available in ever-increasing speeds. > > Err, release cross-building does work AFAIK. ru@ worked on it many years > ago. > Have you tried it and run into problems?
Cross-building "works" in the sense of finishing with something which looks like a release; but when I tried it a few years ago (when I was writing the current generation of freebsd-update) there were some files which built differently for cross vs. native builds. IIRC it wasn't a huge number of files, though. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
