On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:15:22AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine and seem to > > be running into problems. We have farm of build machines that we use > > to build many other things and my team would look like to use it going > > forward for our FreeBSD development. > > > > Has anyone tried this before? > > > > I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't seem to find > > bmake for Linux. > > I don't know of any port of BSD make(1) to Linux, or if that would be > sufficient to cross-build FreeBSD. I'm trying to build a snapshot of > FreeBSD make(1) which builds with autoconf, for other stuff, but it > may take a while before I have a fully autoconf-ified version and that > may still not be adequate.
Debian has a package 'freebsd5-buildutils', which includes a version of
make that runs on GNU/Linux. I used it for a while when I was too lazy
to port some makefiles to GNU make. I don't know, however, if it'll
build more recent versions of FreeBSD than 5.x.
Ben
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