Building Less?

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 22:15 -0700, Russell Haley wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've pivoted back to my ARM board again. I noticed that when I build world,
> it builds all the man pages and languages and a whole bunch of other stuff.
> That's not too bad because I have a decent computer, but when I run
> installworld and install onto an sd card things get really slow.
> 
> Is there a way to reduce what I am building and installing onto the sd card?
> 
> 
> Current process:
> make -DNO_CLEAN TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv6 -j10 buildworld
> 
> make -DNO_CLEAN TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv6 KERNCONF=IMX6 -j10 buildkernel
> 
>  sudo mount /dev/da2s2 /usr/jails/Jailbird/mnt/ufspart
>   make TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv6 DESTDIR=/mnt/ufspart installworld
> distribution
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Russ

Add to your crossbuild command line "srcconf=/some/path/src.conf" and in
that src.conf file put a bunch of WITHOUT_foo commands to eliminate the
things you don't need in the target system.  Iirc, you need a fully-
qualified pathname in the srcconf=.

"man src.conf" gives you the list of WITH/WITHOUT controls you can set.

Be sure to keep your crossbuild src.conf file(s) separate from your
main /etc/src.conf file that's used when you build the host system.

-- Ian