[Fixing some over general wording: I missed a qualifier.] On Mar 15, 2024, at 09:33, Mark Millard <mark...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2024, at 01:59, Oliver Epper <oliver.ep...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I can only suggest deploying a Mac Mini M1 with qemu using Apple HVF as a >> poudriere server for aarch64. >> See https://oliver-epper.de/posts/poudriere-on-m1-mac/ >> >> I never had success with qemu emulation on amd64 and the Mac Mini builds >> rust and llvm without problems. I don't think I'd like to wait for these >> packages to build on a pi. > > My notes are about building armv7 (32-bit) ports into packages, > not aarch64 ports into packages (not 64-bit). > > All Apple's arm implementations All Apple's M* arm implementations . . . > do not support armv7 code as I > understand. qemu based emulation would be required in order to > build armv7 packages form ports in that context. > > But things would largely be the same for building aarch64 ports > into packages. RPi5/RPi4B's or analogous small arm boards from > others may be more common overall. (I just happen to have access > to RPi*'s instead of other alternative small arm boards. So I > used what I've got.) > > My notes are intended to be suggestive about effective > poudriere-devel based pacakge building use for folks using such > small arm boards, at least those with 4 cores and 2 GiBytes+ > RAM. On systems with more cores or 32 GiBytes of RAM, I do > various things differently. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
