Subject: Re: Cross-compiling packages
To: None <pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 01/15/2008 15:36:23
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:52:27AM +0000, Richard Danter wrote:
> I have been googling for information about cross-compiling packages
> using pkgsrc. Most of the info I have found is quite old and suggests
> that this is not actually possible. Is this still the case or has
> cross compilation support been added? If it is possible can you point
> me to some docs/examples?

pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-crosscompile-xorg. The infrastructure can handle other
peeces as long as all dependencies can be cross-compiled. The biggest
no-no currently is Perl. Feel free to ask any questions to clarify this.

Joerg