Re: Cross-compiling packages

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

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