Re: Thoughts about bringing back old bulk build system

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 06:34:10PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
 >    There's also the scheme I proposed a while back: using a cross-chroot
 >    where most of the bins are native and the compiler is a
 >    cross-compiler, coupled with kernel support for transparently invoking
 >    an emulator to run target binaries. Then the build would mostly be
 >    fast, but things like miniperl would run transparently.
 > 
 > Something like this has been done in FreeBSD ports using qemu user
 > emulation -- if I recall correctly, there was a talk at EuroBSDcon
 > 2014 about it.

Neat. I wonder if they thought of it independently or stole the
idea... I first proposed it quite some time back.

(There isn't qemu user emulation for NetBSD yet, AFAICR.)

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