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thaunderdog@×××××.com wrote: |
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> What would be an appropriate build machine for compiling binaries for a |
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> vast range of sub-architectures, including different CHOSTs? I've read |
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> that catalyst "supports the ability to build x86 architecture stages on |
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> amd64 systems." [1] Not strictly speaking using catalyst to accomplish |
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> this in anyway, but I don't see why we can't perform the same actions |
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> inside a chroot. |
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> Is cross compiling a Pentium3 environment inside a chroot on an Opteron |
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> safe? What about a 486? Is this logic [2] correct? |
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I have no idea. I am not going to venture a guess at something that I |
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cannot verify myself. Now, if you would like to send me a nice 64bit box, |
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I would be glad to give you a better answer :) Heh heh. |
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> Granted, I'm strictly speaking of x86 based architectures here, and not |
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> asking if catalyst is the way to go but the manual chroot method |
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> mentioned. What about building in 32bit chroots on a 64bit systems, |
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> should this be like for like? |
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Catalyst is a tool with a different purpose, it is more suited to generate |
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cds and stages, not packages. It also generates stages differently, using |
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one stage to generate another in a separate ROOT, for example. Not an easy |
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tool to automate. |
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My tool is more useful in an ISP/ASP/server farm environment. I build all |
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of my home machines and my hosting boxes on my mythtv box, which happens to |
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be the most powerful machine I have access to outside of work... |
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