From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 3 04:13:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55E916A419 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 04:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sarvi@cisco.com) Received: from sj-iport-6.cisco.com (sj-iport-6.cisco.com [171.71.176.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9050D13C45B for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 04:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sarvi@cisco.com) Received: from sj-dkim-4.cisco.com ([171.71.179.196]) by sj-iport-6.cisco.com with ESMTP; 02 Dec 2007 20:13:52 -0800 Received: from sj-core-1.cisco.com (sj-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.177.237]) by sj-dkim-4.cisco.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id lB34Dq9W027075; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 20:13:52 -0800 Received: from xbh-sjc-221.amer.cisco.com (xbh-sjc-221.cisco.com [128.107.191.63]) by sj-core-1.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id lB34Dlqb023173; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 04:13:52 GMT Received: from xmb-sjc-229.amer.cisco.com ([128.107.191.122]) by xbh-sjc-221.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 20:13:50 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 20:13:40 -0800 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20071202231522.GC2172@kobe.laptop> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Building FreeBSD on Linux Thread-Index: Acg1OVF8Yt2dhhZjSaO8moDZXmgZzwAJ7tJw References: <20071202231522.GC2172@kobe.laptop> From: "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Dec 2007 04:13:50.0305 (UTC) FILETIME=[E8741D10:01C83562] DKIM-Signature: v=0.5; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; l=1608; t=1196655232; x=1197519232; c=relaxed/simple; s=sjdkim4002; h=Content-Type:From:Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version; d=cisco.com; i=sarvi@cisco.com; z=From:=20=22Saravanan=20Shanmugham=20(sarvi)=22=20 |Subject:=20RE=3A=20Building=20FreeBSD=20on=20Linux |Sender:=20; bh=ZEIMkjM2VlRMLHJ94biY4+7nLACuSAskrnHvSgS9uzU=; b=uucu3RxQO7YZZcbd1r/Bh98J8UIvuHBdt5pTaG+8URsq5tLoGsy+F2+1nm751iif9CYLsq4L jcv53HF2niqSRtOCyFQjLilHLLxo5h7SV4zyH1ml2yK5Dz9g2q8FeBXu; Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-4; header.From=sarvi@cisco.com; dkim=pass (s ig from cisco.com/sjdkim4002 verified; ); Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Building FreeBSD on Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:13:52 -0000 I installed/bootstrapped NetBSD pkgsrc on the linux box. This comes with bmake(which I think standas for bsdmake).=20 But fails else where. Sarvi -----Original Message----- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr]=20 Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 3:15 PM To: Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux Importance: High =20 On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)"=20 wrote: > =20 > Hi, > I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine=20 and seem to=20 > be running into problems. We have farm of build=20 machines that we use=20 > to build many other things and my team would look like=20 to use it going=20 > forward for our FreeBSD development. > =20 > Has anyone tried this before?=20 > =20 > I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't=20 seem to find=20 > bmake for Linux. =20 I don't know of any port of BSD make(1) to Linux, or if=20 that would be sufficient to cross-build FreeBSD. I'm=20 trying to build a snapshot of FreeBSD make(1) which builds=20 with autoconf, for other stuff, but it may take a while=20 before I have a fully autoconf-ified version and that may=20 still not be adequate. =20 You can always try booting a FreeBSD snapshot inside=20 vmware or qemu, and build FreeBSD from FreeBSD, but that=20 may be a bit slow... =20