Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:08:00 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cross-Development with NetBSD Message-ID: <20021122160800.GA47576@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021122105744.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021122114100.GC11000@sunbay.com> <XFMail.20021122105744.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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--rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:57:44AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >=20 > On 22-Nov-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:31:19PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > >>=20 > >> 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.a= u> > >> >> > "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>= writes: > >> >> > : Is FreeBSD likely to follow the in footsteps of NetBSD and crea= te > >> >> > : 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 bu= ilds > >> >> > and build full releases that work in a cross build evironment. > >> >> > >> >> What do you mean by "incremental builds and full releases that work= ..."? > >> >=20 > >> > 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. > >>=20 > >> 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=3Dalpha > >> everything I would prefer that. > >>=20 > > What would you prefer, I didn't quite understand? >=20 > If I could: >=20 > % cd /usr/src/usr.bin/foo_binary > % make TARGET_ARCH=3Dalpha >=20 > and end up with an alpha foo binary. Granted, I might have to > do some extra steps to setup the build environment, and that > would be fine. Would be nice if I could do: >=20 > % cd /usr/src > % make TARGET_ARCH=3Dalpha buildenv >=20 > or some such. However, I think that might involve a good bit of > work to get right and the gains might not be worth the expense. >=20 See my other message in this thread <20021122113810.GA11000@sunbay.com> which includes the tinder.sh script that does exactly that. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93lZgUkv4P6juNwoRAkPAAJoCZpM5pyPKoaVUUdl0okj2Tf+LhwCaAyQI JTqpDfbLSMM1rIz5kh0PeRw= =Arx7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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