From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 3 02:04:04 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 8CFB516A418 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 02:04:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bma@gilmour.subvert.org.uk) Received: from jagger.subvert.org.uk (jagger.subvert.org.uk [80.68.88.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A6313C458 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 02:04:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bma@gilmour.subvert.org.uk) Received: from localhost (jagger.subvert.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) by jagger.subvert.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C543813B for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:33:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jagger.subvert.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jagger.subvert.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3rlJXbA5k2of for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:33:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gilmour.subvert.org.uk (user-5445b321.lns2-c13.telh.dsl.pol.co.uk [84.69.179.33]) (Authenticated sender: bma) by jagger.subvert.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03BF938138 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by gilmour.subvert.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F160C1E53ADD; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:33:39 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:33:39 +0000 From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071203013339.GB6049@gilmour.subvert.org.uk> References: <20071202231522.GC2172@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XF85m9dhOBO43t/C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071202231522.GC2172@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) 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 02:04:04 -0000 --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:15:22AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" wro= te: > > =20 > > 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. > > =20 > > Has anyone tried this before?=20 > > =20 > > I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't seem to find > > bmake for Linux. >=20 > 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. Debian has a package 'freebsd5-buildutils', which includes a version of make that runs on GNU/Linux. I used it for a while when I was too lazy to port some makefiles to GNU make. I don't know, however, if it'll build more recent versions of FreeBSD than 5.x. Ben --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHU1zzEUZDNrttL6ARApJAAKC69j4l+rf3MOI3iEnTcmmyGN+mQQCfYymH +TX71d62pCaPa40YlsGklqI= =UY1E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C--