On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:31:19PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 21-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:10:14AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > >> > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > "Wilkinson,Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > : Is FreeBSD likely to follow the in footsteps of NetBSD and create > >> > : a framework to do crossbuilds ? > >> > : > >> > : http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200211/xdevnetbsd.html > >> > > >> > FreeBSD already has cross builds for a while, since before NetBSD's > >> > cross build infrastructure. However, NetBSD's infrastructure is a > >> > little more extensive because it is possible to do incremental builds > >> > and build full releases that work in a cross build evironment. > >> > >> What do you mean by "incremental builds and full releases that work ..."? > > > > You know, like changing one line in /usr/src/lib/libstand on > > a source tree on a x86 box, typing "make release", and having > > only the things that need to be rebuilt being rebuilt, resulting > > in a working FreeBSD-Alpha or FreeBSD-SPARC64 release CDROM image. > > Make release is a very poor example b/c make release goes to great > efforts to create a clean-room environment for a release. make > rerelease is quite helpful though and does do what you want to > restart a previous release. :) Also, make buildworld -DNOCLEAN > isn't too shabby, though if I could do make TARGET_ARCH=alpha > everything I would prefer that. > What would you prefer, I didn't quite understand?
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