From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 16 9:33:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (sol.serv.u-szeged.hu [160.114.51.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D60037B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 09:33:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id SAA26040; Wed, 16 May 2001 18:33:08 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1504ET-0005ML-00; Wed, 16 May 2001 18:33:05 +0200 Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:33:05 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: "Eugene M. Kim" Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross-platform make world/release? Message-ID: <20010516183305.B13461@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , "Eugene M. Kim" , current@freebsd.org References: <20010516085244.A2118@alicia.nttmcl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010516085244.A2118@alicia.nttmcl.com>; from gene@nttmcl.com on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:52:44AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:52:44AM -0700, Eugene M. Kim wrote: > Greetings, > > Short question: is FreeBSD capable of cross-platform make world and > release (e.g. build of Alpha world/release on x86 and vice versa)? Hello, Cross-platform world should work rather easily. (have not tried it since I don't have an Alpha lying around here:-P) See in particular the Makefiles right under src/ there is a good explanation on top in comments of what vars you can set and what they do. As for release, well that's tricky. In theory it should work also but in praxis the study of src/release/Makefile has proven to be some pain at times... note that I have not tried this one either... what I *did* try was however to build 4.3-RELEASE on a -CURRENT box (same platform) and to my great dismay I had to discover that even after loading the "bin" distribution from the ftp into the release chroot(2), it took heavy amounts of tinkering to get things going... the make world succeeded though, so I assume that most anything would have gone well from that point... in any case, if you want to do a release, study the Makefiles closely and understand what they do. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message