Subject: Re: Building pkgsrc for alternative arch or OS rev?
To: Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@redcrowgroup.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/28/2004 05:48:45
The package pkgtools/pkg_comp does what you're looking for. (It won't
support alternate architectures, but will support other versions of NetBSD)
+j
Chris Ross wrote:
>
> Hi. My main development machine is an i386 running -current. However,
> I have a few machines that are much slower that are providing most of my
> services. Is there a [good] way to build against the obj trees that I
> also
> built on this same build machine, so that the pkgsrc binaries are
> built to
> run on an alternative arch, or an alternative version of NetBSD?
>
> For example, I need to get a squid to run on an i386 2.0 machine, but
> am not sure the IPF stuff built into squid will be the same on the
> 2.99.11
> machine I'm building on. Is there a way I can build pkgsrc against some
> alternative set of headers, et al, perhaps with a different toolchain and
> the like?
>
> Thanks...
>
> - Chris
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