From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 31 23:09:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4BB16A419 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:09:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2ECA13C459 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:09:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp5-162.adsl.forthnet.gr [62.1.228.162]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id lBVN90sh016455 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 01:09:09 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lBVN90U8038299; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 01:09:00 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id lBVN90If038293; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 01:09:00 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 01:08:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Johan A. van Zanten" Message-ID: <20071231230858.GA37523@kobe.laptop> References: <20071231.163348.85398131.johan@giantfoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071231.163348.85398131.johan@giantfoo.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.107, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.29, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building FreeBSD from source on OS X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:09:24 -0000 On 2007-12-31 16:33, "Johan A. van Zanten" wrote: > Greetings. > Recently i acquired an intel-based Mac mini and would like to build > FreeBSD on it, but the mini needs to be (always) running OS X, because > of other duties (DVR) it has. > > Is it possible to build FreeBSD from source on OS X running on intel > hardware? > > I've tried the straight forward "make" in the source area, but it > appears that OS X's make is actually gnu make, and it doesn't like the > FreeBSD makefiles. I have the NetBSD pkgsrc system setup, and have a > "bmake" which gets a little further when trying to build > /usr/src/usr/bin/make, but still has some problems. > > Before i go any further with this, i wanted to check and see if this > is even possible. I think one of the best options right now is to use Parallels, or some other virtualization system. BTW, I'm trying to 'port' FreeBSD make to make it buildable with autoconf, and automake, so that it is easier to run freebsd-make on non-FreeBSD systems, but there's still a lot of work before this is usable for building a full FreeBSD source tree. - Giorgos