Re: cross-building ports

2005-01-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:47:24PM -0800, Paul Allen wrote: Is there a command-line option to cause ports to be built for a different architecture than that of the native system? This is not supported. Kris pgpHuFhxC54fl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cross-building ports

2005-01-13 Thread Jonathan Dama
Thanks for clarifying that I wasn't just missing the obvious. I suppose that's not surprising given all the complicated things some builds do to configure themselves based on testing the environment. What about the simple case of building ia32 on an amd64 host? (Assuming WITH_LIB32 has been set

Re: cross-building ports

2005-01-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:27:17PM -0800, Jonathan Dama wrote: Thanks for clarifying that I wasn't just missing the obvious. I suppose that's not surprising given all the complicated things some builds do to configure themselves based on testing the environment. What about the simple case

Re: Cross building ports

2004-05-14 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:04:34PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: You can't generally cross-build packages for different architectures. Kris Rats! That's what I was afraid of. Will have to see if I can get my hands on an i386 package builder... Thanks, Kris. Dan

Re: Cross building ports

2004-05-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:44:11AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:04:34PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: You can't generally cross-build packages for different architectures. Kris Rats! That's what I was afraid of. Will have to see if I can get my hands on an

Re: Cross building ports

2004-05-14 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:45:52AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: Rats! That's what I was afraid of. Will have to see if I can get my hands on an i386 package builder... You can always just download the prebuilt packages from the ftp site.. If you really want to use your amd64 machine to

RE: Cross building ports

2004-05-13 Thread JJB
After installing the port on your build box go ahead and run the make package on the /usr/port/portname directory. The resulting package will be in that directory. Copy it to your other i386 box and pkg_add pgkname and it will work. I have even done it with newer FBSD operation system version on

Re: Cross building ports

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:36:53PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: Hi all, Don't know if what I want to do is possible - but there's no harm in asking, eh? I have a central build server running FreeBSD-5.2.1 amd64, which is happily building world/kernel for amd64 and i386. In order to keep