Jenkins builds for non X86

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:14 PM, George Neville-Neil <gnn at neville-neil.com>
wrote:

> On 20 Mar 2015, at 5:53, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>
>  On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:42 AM, George Neville-Neil <
>> gnn at neville-neil.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Remind me, do the Jenkins builds try to build non-X86 stuff?  ARM?
>>>
>>
>>
>> At http://jenkins.freebsd.org we currently have:
>>
>> FreeBSD_HEAD_sparc64     -> builds sparc64 with existing gcc in base
>>
>> FreeBSD_HEAD_mip32_be
>> FreeBSD_HEAD_mips32_le
>> FreeBSD_HEAD_mips64_be
>> FreeBSD_HEAD_mips64_le
>>                                            -> builds various mips
>> targets with existing gcc in base.
>>                                                These are not running
>> every day.
>>
>> Nothing for ARM yet.
>>
>>
>> I set up this build:
>> FreeBSD_HEAD_external_toolchain_gcc
>>
>> but it is failing due to a bug in the FreeBSD Makefiles with respect to
>> setting --sysroot
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-toolchain/
>> 2015-March/001458.html
>>
>> Is that something you can help with?
>>
>> Proper external toolchain support will be helpful for ARM, ARM64, etc.
>>
>>
> Warner (imp@) is working on this.  Do the MIPS builds use QEMU?  If so,
> then why
> not do ARM the same way for now?
>
>

No, we don't build mips inside QEMU.  QEMU is very slow.
Do you know when Warner will fix the --sysroot stuff with external
toolchain?
I sent an e-mail to freebsd-toolchain@ but got no response.

--
Craig