Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:31:19 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Cross-Development with NetBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.20021121143119.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3DDD2CB8.7E080912@mindspring.com>
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On 21-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:10:14AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> > In message: <20021121151714.U961-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> >> > "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> writes: >> > : Is FreeBSD likely to follow the in footsteps of NetBSD and create >> > : a framework to do crossbuilds ? >> > : >> > : http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200211/xdevnetbsd.html >> > >> > FreeBSD already has cross builds for a while, since before NetBSD's >> > cross build infrastructure. However, NetBSD's infrastructure is a >> > little more extensive because it is possible to do incremental builds >> > and build full releases that work in a cross build evironment. >> >> What do you mean by "incremental builds and full releases that work ..."? > > You know, like changing one line in /usr/src/lib/libstand on > a source tree on a x86 box, typing "make release", and having > only the things that need to be rebuilt being rebuilt, resulting > in a working FreeBSD-Alpha or FreeBSD-SPARC64 release CDROM image. Make release is a very poor example b/c make release goes to great efforts to create a clean-room environment for a release. make rerelease is quite helpful though and does do what you want to restart a previous release. :) Also, make buildworld -DNOCLEAN isn't too shabby, though if I could do make TARGET_ARCH=alpha everything I would prefer that. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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