From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 31 22:50:22 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 333E216A417 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:50:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan@giantfoo.org) Received: from pangu.giantfoo.org (pangu.giantfoo.org [24.227.169.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1513913C43E for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:50:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan@giantfoo.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pangu.giantfoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13848122B0 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:33:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:33:48 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <20071231.163348.85398131.johan@giantfoo.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Johan A. van Zanten X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Building FreeBSD from source on OS X? 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, 31 Dec 2007 22:50:22 -0000 Greetings. Recently i acquired an intel-based Mac mini and would like to build FreeBSD on it, but the mini needs to be (always) running OS X, because of other duties (DVR) it has. Is it possible to build FreeBSD from source on OS X running on intel hardware? I've tried the straight forward "make" in the source area, but it appears that OS X's make is actually gnu make, and it doesn't like the FreeBSD makefiles. I have the NetBSD pkgsrc system setup, and have a "bmake" which gets a little further when trying to build /usr/src/usr/bin/make, but still has some problems. Before i go any further with this, i wanted to check and see if this is even possible. Anyone know? -johan