On 01/21/12 04:15, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Colin Percival <cperc...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> We don't have suitable build hardware for other architectures, and there are >> some problems with release cross-building which aren't fixed yet. > > I found out that building ppc with TARGET= worked nicely on 9.0-RELEASE. > Do you know what problems? Maybe I can help.
IIRC there were some data files (fortunes? magic? something like that...) which had platform-specific formats (presumably pointer size and endianness issues) and didn't have properly crossing build tools. It's possible that these have been fixed by now, though. Try doing a release cross-build and compare it against a non-crossed release build; extract the built tarballs and send me a list of which ones aren't identical. I know which files "normally" build differently so I can look over the list and tell you if there's something which shouldn't be there. -- 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"
