Re: Trouble Cross-Compiling GCC12 (AMD64 host/i386 target)

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

zamfofex <zamfofex%twdb.moe@localhost> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.