Re: mk.conf for crosscompiling pkgsrc

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 9 February 2016 at 12:58, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
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> Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost> writes:
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>>> On 8/02/2016, at 8:51 AM, Marina Brown <marina%e271.net@localhost> wrote:
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>>> Are there any example mk.conf for cross compiling pkgsrc stuff for
>>> raspberry PI 1 out there ?
>>
>> In general, pkgsrc can’t be cross compiled. This is because there are
>> no rules governing how a package might need to be built. NetBSD’s
>> source on the other hand has clear rules about how it is built, which
>> is why it can be cross compiled.
>
> That is true, however some packages can be cross compiled, and people
> have done real cross compilation from pkgsrc.  It's just that many will
> fail.  I'd like to see more of this work over time, but it's a lot of
> effort to fix (upstream) packages that aren't cross-clean.

Are there any notes or documentation showing a worked example?  My
(admittedly feeble) searching never seemed to turn up much more than
distcc.

I recently bludgeoned several applications into the openwrt and
uClinux cross build systems, and the whole exercise was worryingly
straight forward :-/

> Michael Blatt posted a link.  This approach should completely work; it's
> just that things not usable by distcc will still run locally, and thus
> be slow.
>