On 2012-May-24 06:47:48 -0400, Thomas Mueller <muelle...@insightbb.com> wrote: >Is it feasible to chroot into an i386 environment when booted to FreeBSD amd64 >for the purpose of building and installing ports for i386?
Yes. I have built i386 code (both world & ports) using both chroot and jail. The only caveat is that the i386 world should be no newer than the host kernel. Assuming /tank/m3 has an i386 world installed: On the host: # mount -r -t nullfs /usr/src /tank/m3/usr/src # mount -r -t nullfs /usr/ports /tank/m3/usr/ports # mount -t devfs devfs /tank/m3/dev # chroot /tank/m3 bin/sh Inside the chroot: # export MACHINE=i386 UNAME_p=i386 UNAME_m=i386 # cd /usr/src && make buildworld # cd /usr/ports/.../... && make install etc So far, I've only had this fail when building MPIR (which isn't a port and seems to have broken CPU detection code). -- Peter Jeremy
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