The way I solved the autoconf problem was that you have one arm machine do the actual building and a cluster of powerful x86 machines running distcc with cross compilers. So this way it builds really fast and the package build system thinks it is native without any problems.
Honestly a little surprised this would be news. Doesn't everyone have an arm cluster or a distcc type setup like the above?
Edit: Back when mac's were PPC I did the same trick and had a handful of x86 Linux box's with apple's gcc setup for cross compiling running with distcc. Made the OS X builds run much faster.
Honestly a little surprised this would be news. Doesn't everyone have an arm cluster or a distcc type setup like the above?
Edit: Back when mac's were PPC I did the same trick and had a handful of x86 Linux box's with apple's gcc setup for cross compiling running with distcc. Made the OS X builds run much faster.