Building FreeBSD on a linux FC11 box.
Patrick Mahan
mahan at mahan.org
Sat Feb 20 17:00:55 UTC 2010
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.
Thanks for any pointers,
Patrick
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