Building FreeBSD on a linux FC11 box.

[R. Tyler Ballance]

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Patrick Mahan wrote:

> 
> 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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