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Date:      Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:55:35 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Building Kyua inside qemu mips VM
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I haven't tried it, because sean does a good job wrangling those yak herds.

I'd rather we actually had proper cross-building without these kinds
of hacks, and having more people with an actual requirement voicing
this would be nice.



-adrian


On 15 February 2015 at 10:51, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have you tried any of these options to cross-build ports:
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuUserModeHowTo
>
> Those options look complicated, but workable.
> --
> Craig
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> ... ask the ports people to support cross-building as a "thing" one can
>> do?
>>
>> All of those ports you've mentioned should be a perfectly good target
>> for cross-building; I've done them before individually.
>>
>>
>>
>> -adrian
>>
>>
>> On 15 February 2015 at 10:23, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > Adrian,
>> >
>> > I am continuing on the work started in the Hackathon which
>> > you organized in January.  I have this Jenkins job which
>> > builds a UFS image built for mips using the MALTA kernel config:
>> >
>> > https://jenkins.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD_HEAD_mips32_be/
>> >
>> > I am using this invocation of QEMU to boot the image with 256MB RAM:
>> >
>> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/MipsEmulation#Configuring_QEMU
>> >
>> > I am now trying to build /usr/ports/devel/kyua
>> > inside the VM, so that I can do "cd /usr/tests ; kyua test" to run
>> > all the tests.
>> >
>> > However, building kyua and all its dependencies (atf, sqlite, lua,
>> > lutok)
>> > is taking a really long time inside this VM, on the order of many hours.
>> >
>> > Is there something I can do to boost performance so I can at least build
>> > kyua faster in this VM?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Craig
>
>



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