Speaker
Taylor Campbell
(The NetBSD Foundation)
Description
Building custom packages for a powerpc or mips network appliance that's too painfully small to build anything itself? With pkgsrc, the customizable cross-platform packaging system from NetBSD, you can cross-build from a large repository of packages on your beefier laptop, workstation, or server instead -- and not just across architectures, but soon across operating systems too.
pkgsrc will automatically handle natively building toolchain packages needed as dependencies to cross-build packages, so you don't have to fuss with manually assembling all the parts of a cross-compiler toolchain in advance. Most packages require relatively little work to adapt to cross-builds.
This talk will discuss the state of cross-compilation in pkgsrc:
- how to use it,
- how to adapt recalcitrant packages to it,
- architecture, limitations, and comparison to alternative approaches,
- and upcoming work.
Primary author
Taylor Campbell
(The NetBSD Foundation)
