Subject: Re: binary packages any use??
To: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@gmx.info>
From: Davide Zanon <d.zanon@infinito.it>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/23/2005 06:32:52
On Thursday 23 June 2005 01:53, Zafer Aydogan wrote:

> Another thing is, if you have the possibility to do builk builds (building
> all packages). You could offer this to NetBSD.
> But I think sparc packages are crossbuild on faster machines, because
> building all packages would probably take a whole century on sparc.
>
> Zafer.

Err... Unfortunately it seems to me that packages can't be crossbuilt for 
now... I had to compile some kde stuff on my ultra5/270 and in fact it took a 
very ong time. I think there's not a crosscompile framework for pkgsrc. It 
would be fantastic to have one!

david