RFC: "Crochet" build tool

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Thu Apr 4 22:32:47 UTC 2013


On 04/03/13 23:20, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 6:22 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>
>> On 03/26/13 14:38, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>> NanoBSD isn't specifically x86 only.
>>>
>>> The startup script stuff is x86 only.
>>>
>>> The build/installworld part of nanobsd can be refactored out and made
>>> platform portable.
>>>
>>> The UFS image building part can be refactored out and made platform portable.
>>>
>>> The startup script stuff can be refactored out and made platform portable.
>>>
>>> The disk image stuff can be refactored out and made platform portable.
>>>
>>> These aren't unsolvable problems. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It's probably worth noting here that release(7) can do cross-builds,
>> including disk image generation, with no problem. If that's the part
>> you're looking at, it's already solved.
>> -Nathan
> What boot support does it install?
>
> Tim
>
>

Something platform specific. There are scripts in the various 
architecture subdirectories in /usr/src/release, although they are 
mostly focused on building CD media.
-Nathan


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