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Date:      Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:55:07 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To:        Michael Vale <m.vale@live.com.au>
Cc:        "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, "bapt@freebsd.org" <bapt@freebsd.org>, "portmgr@freebsd.org" <portmgr@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: X_BUILD_FOR is back!
Message-ID:  <20150720095507.0fe291f2@X220.alogt.com>
In-Reply-To: <COL130-W43DE42FD6856F6C29B9D29C4860@phx.gbl>
References:  <COL130-W43DE42FD6856F6C29B9D29C4860@phx.gbl>

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Hi,

this sounds good.

Erich


On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:19:07 +1030
Michael Vale <m.vale@live.com.au> wrote:

>  Okay!
>  
> Patch and go!
>  
> bmake X_BUILD_FOR=mips BUILD_AS_USER= SRC_BASE=/home/masked/src
>  
> Will build and install ports into /home/masked/src/../root/mips/
>  
> By default at first it will want to build and install mips-gcc to
> cross compile.  Next it will want to build and install pkg-1.5.5.
> Personally I had problems with pkg's configure script and
> external/libucl/xxhash.c that needed debugging.  "cross_compiling" =
> "yes" after a search for "git head" in pkg's configure needs to be
> changed from "yes" to "maybe" and a search for swap32 in xxhash.c,
> finds you with an elif for __bswap32 that needs to be erased, then
> pkg should compile.  Please let me know if you have different
> results. Currently ports "install" is broken.  I'm not sure what is
> wrong with it, but rather than wait until it is fixed, I thought I
> would post this anyway as I have been using the stage target as
> install, pointing STAGEDIR to SYSROOT. Next I will go through it and
> remove SHARE files, DOCs, MAN pages, and other stuff that we don't
> need on embedded systems. I did do some changes to
> Scripts/do-depends.sh and Scripts/find-lib.sh, I'm unsure now if any
> of those changes were needed and I don't have a copy of the originals
> right now so rather than post patches, I've posted the entire files,
> sorry about that. Correction = Install /does/ work for some ports, it
> depends on a few factors, I will iron them out ASAP.  Other than
> that, and the excess junk from the ports (DOC's MAN's SHARE, etc).
> This iteration is for the most-part complete. Practically /all/ of
> the pkg support is complete, it will register packages to a database
> on the embedded filesystems root and successfully delete packages,
> regardless of the fact that install is not working 100% right now.
> The majority of ports should build, "stage-install", install and
> package up without a fuss.  Dependency checking and building should
> all be sane. Please let me know what you think. Regards, Michael. 



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