Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:00:41 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com> Subject: Re: -current cross compile for -stable Message-ID: <E1IQGbZ-000Eoo-Pm@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20070828213044.GB89132@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <E1IPxEc-0001jJ-4f@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <20070828213044.GB89132@dragon.NUXI.org>
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> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:19:42PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > On 8/28/07, LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: > > > > Danny Braniss wrote: > > > > > till now I used a stable box to cross compile for other > > > > > arch/stable|current. today i decided to try out -current as a > > > > > base to cross compile. does it work? since i get: > > > > > > > > > > export MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/r+d/obj/cs4 > > > > > cd /r+d/6.2/src; make TARGET_ARCH=amd64 buildworld > > > > > ... > > > > This won't work. In order to build -STABLE you have to install a > > > > chrooted RELENG_6 environment and chroot into it to make it work. > > > > > > I think there is a hack for ports' tinderbox, patch is at > > > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/binutils.diff > > > Not sure it appears in ports@ mailing or tinderbox's. > > > > well, I can confirm that it works. 1)I'm now testing the result > > by using the result to make buildworld - goto 1 :-). > > > > so, if it works for tinderbox, and for me, can it be 'installed'? > > There's no reason to - if you want to build RELENG_6 on a 7.x box, you > should have RELENG_6 chroot to do so. You'll just keep running into > problems as we don't support builds the way you're trying. one of the things that attracted me to FreeBSD was the fact that I could cross-compile. I always, till now, used a RELENG as a base (solid? :-) to build CURRENT, but now, so close to releases, I decided to try the other way, just before upgrading. So now I have some questions: - Is documented != supported? - is building on a RELENG for CURRRENT ok? danny
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