Re: Installing software found in /ports

Steve O'Hara-Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 13:11:53 +0200
Andrew Mitchell via freebsd-arm <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> There is software in /ports that I can't install on my arm64.aarch64,
> RELEASE-13.0-RC3. I guess that this doesn't stem from the release itself,
> but from incompatibility with the architecture I'm using. Any method to
> make software in /ports conform to my host architecture? I've been trying

	That depends on the port - most ports will compile and run on most
architectures but there are exceptions - for example:

> to install /ports/lang/cmucl. I hope there is a solution.

	A look in the Makefile in ports/lang/cmucl reveals:

# To make available on other archs, has to be cross-compiled (there is a
# script for this, but a configuration file has to be written).
IA32_BINARY_PORT=       yes

	It looks like there is a solution that needs some work, somebody
has to write a configuration file for cross compiling - and understand that
comment in more detail than I do.

	Fancy giving it a go ?

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <[email protected]>
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.