Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:03:14 -0800 From: "R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler@monkeypox.org> To: Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building FreeBSD on a linux FC11 box. Message-ID: <20100220210314.GB22800@kiwi.sharlinx.com> In-Reply-To: <4B800F60.60700@mahan.org> References: <4B800F60.60700@mahan.org>
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On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Patrick Mahan wrote:
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> Hopefully, this is not too ignorant a question. But has anyone every
> built the FreeBSD sources, both kernel and apps, on a linux platform?
>
> 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.
>
> I have done lots of development in linux using cross-compilers (mips
> embedded systems, powerpc, etc). But not with FreeBSD.
>
> 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
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