X_BUILD_FOR is back!

[Michael Vale]

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    It /is/ using DESTDIR. And sure, if your root/mips is elsewhere you can specify it there. In fact, iirc from Memory DESTDIR=SYSROOT... just search for either in the Makefile to get your bearings.
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------ Original message------From: Adrian ChaddDate: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:31To: Erich Dollansky;Cc: Michael Vale;freebsd-embedded at freebsd.org;freebsd-mips at freebsd.org;freebsd-arm at freebsd.org;bapt at freebsd.org;portmgr at freebsd.org;Subject:Re: X_BUILD_FOR is back!
hiya,

can you make it use DESTDIR or something? Ie, not assume it's
SRCDIR../../root/mips/ ?


-a


On 19 July 2015 at 18:55, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this sounds good.
>
> Erich
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:19:07 +1030
> Michael Vale <m.vale at 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.