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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:15:22 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <sarvi@cisco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux
Message-ID:  <20071202231522.GC2172@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <C6A1C20DB743364EB446E923B2229FEF051681AA@xmb-sjc-229.amer.cisco.com>
References:  <C6A1C20DB743364EB446E923B2229FEF051681AA@xmb-sjc-229.amer.cisco.com>

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On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <sarvi@cisco.com> wrote:
>  
> Hi,
> I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine and seem to
> be running into problems.  We have farm of build machines that we use
> to build many other things and my team would look like to use it going
> forward for our FreeBSD development.
>  
> Has anyone tried this before? 
>  
> I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't seem to find
> bmake for Linux.

I don't know of any port of BSD make(1) to Linux, or if that would be
sufficient to cross-build FreeBSD.  I'm trying to build a snapshot of
FreeBSD make(1) which builds with autoconf, for other stuff, but it
may take a while before I have a fully autoconf-ified version and that
may still not be adequate.

You can always try booting a FreeBSD snapshot inside vmware or qemu,
and build FreeBSD from FreeBSD, but that may be a bit slow...




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