Re: [arch-general] building x86_64 packages under qemu?

Am 11.01.2010 17:48, schrieb Chris Brannon:

Is there any reason why building x86_64 packages under qemu-system-x86_64 would be a bad idea? It is a little slow, but it is usable. Plus, qemu has a curses interface.

It is not a little slow, but painfully slow (remember: the compiler runs in an emulated environment, where each CPU instruction issued by the compiler is translated into a CPU instruction that the host CPU understands, and the result is somehow translated back). You could build a package that consists of a handfull of source files, but any bigger project will be impossible. If you really want to do this, it might be better (but surely not easier, this is rather Voodoo) to port makepkg to using a cross-compiler toolchain.