From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 20 21:03:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE97106566B for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:03:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tyler@monkeypox.org) Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (mail.geekisp.com [216.168.135.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A2C8FC12 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18582 invoked by uid 1003); 20 Feb 2010 21:03:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO kiwi.sharlinx.com) (tyler@monkeypox.org@127.0.0.1) by mail.geekisp.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2010 21:03:18 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:03:14 -0800 From: "R. Tyler Ballance" To: Patrick Mahan Message-ID: <20100220210314.GB22800@kiwi.sharlinx.com> Mail-Followup-To: Patrick Mahan , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <4B800F60.60700@mahan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gatW/ieO32f1wygP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B800F60.60700@mahan.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building FreeBSD on a linux FC11 box. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:03:20 -0000 --gatW/ieO32f1wygP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Patrick Mahan wrote: >=20 > Hopefully, this is not too ignorant a question. But has anyone every > built the FreeBSD sources, both kernel and apps, on a linux platform? >=20 > I did a google on 'cross-compile freebsd (linux)' and found (mostly) > discussions regarding building the linux apps for FreeBSD, but not > for building a FreeBSD kernel and world. There was a brief discussion > on the mailing list back in 2005, but the poster never reported if > he had success or failure. Also, there were discussions about building > freebsd amd64 on a freebsd i386. >=20 > I have done lots of development in linux using cross-compilers (mips > embedded systems, powerpc, etc). But not with FreeBSD. >=20 > I know I'll need to use 'bsdmake' no gnu 'make'. The other worry is > kernel-toolchain target. I guess I'll just dive in and swim around > and see what happens. You might want to ask the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD guys: http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ I bet they've got a good idea :) Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance -------------------------------------- Jabber: rtyler@jabber.org GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero Blog: http://unethicalblogger.com --gatW/ieO32f1wygP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuAThIACgkQFCbH3D9R4W8zzwCfWss3oHuYIIipcGE4QLwmgTqD 7D0AmwV/ur1ttBSzvk8djULZYszlpylX =eox0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gatW/ieO32f1wygP--