zamfofex <zamfo...@twdb.moe> writes: >> I have a Pentium II 350 machine that I run NetBSD 10.1 on. Obviously, it can >> build for itself, especially since it has a silly 1GB of RAM, but it’s >> extremely slow, as expected, when building. >> >> So, I use an AMD64 VM , also running NetBSD 10.1, to do the building. I’m >> having issues cross-compiling GCC12, and wanted to see if anyone else has >> seen the same issue.
I think it's great that you are trying cross compiling and raising issues. I think cross is great in general. > 2) Install i386 NetBSD on your build machine. > > To avoid the issue of having to cross-compile packages altogether, you could > install NetBSD for i386 on your build machine (either natively or on a VM) > and build the packages that way. > > It should be possible to run NetBSD for i386 on AMD64 hardware (on bare > metal, but also on a VM running on either i386 or AMD64 host OS with working > CPU-accelarated virtualisation). > > Since you say that the package(s) you want wouldn’t take more than 1GB to > build, it should be fine on 32-bit address space. This is also great advice. I have a modern adm64 box running xen and I have domUs for netbsd 9, 10, 11 i386 and amd64 (but not 11-i386) to build packages.
