Subject: Re: cross compile...
To: None <pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 10/03/2006 20:18:18
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:04:55 -0400, "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>
> wrote:
> > I'm able to cross-compile and install world (netbsd) on the cflash
> > computer from the amd64, over nfs, works great. But it's not clear
> > how to build packages on the amd64 and install them over nfs on
> > the i386.

> My understanding is that in general, one can't cross-compile packages
> across different architectures. 

I guess in this special case (amd64 + i386) you could use Xen
with a guest domain running NetBSD/i386.

-- 
Christian