Re: slow pkgsrc installs / cross-compilation

[Michael Parson <mparson%bl.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, David Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:01:24PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> > perhaps someone in tech-pkg can comment further on cross-compliation
> > (non-)existing in pkgsrc.
>
> I've asked periodically about cross-compiling pkgsrc and have yet to
> get any clear answers.

I'm guessing that the only real way to get results with pkgsrc and
cross-compiling would be to set up $PKGSRC/devel/distcc on the platform
you're compiling for, and have the remote-compile hosts running the
cross compilers.

> I suspect someone with time to kill, willingness to dig into the
> pkgsrc internals, and a fast devel machine needs to sit down and try
> bootstrapping with a cross-compiler.

I've never set this up myself, but it might work, for someone with some
time to kill. :)

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Michael Parson
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