Re: distcc and cross-compiling for FreeBSD on Linux/Solaris
Today i had success compiling: firefox on Debian/i386 with gcc version 3.4.5 20050821 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.4-8) (worked out-of-the-box) squid on FC4/amd64 with gcc version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5) (required CFLAGS+=-m32 in /etc/make.conf on the distcc client) Both firefox and squid work flawlessly on FreeBSD/i386 6.0-BETA5. My roadmap is to build world and kernel on both Linuxes (with other gcc versions) and then to try and do it all on Solaris 10, sparc64. Wish me luck :-) Cheerz, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
distcc and cross-compiling for FreeBSD on Linux/Solaris
We've got some mostly idle, but powerful sparc64 servers running Solaris 9/10, as well as a host of Linux servers (x86 and x86_64). Of course, all the real work is done on a pack of FreeBSD boxes :-) Some days ago I started using ccache and distcc, and I really love these tools. Now I want to get the Solaris and Linux servers to do something useful and compile world, kernels and ports for the FreeBSD boxes. Is there a somewhat comprehensive guide to this? Can somebody share his experience with me? I'm now looking into crosstool how-to's, but I have no knowledge of gcc intrinsics, and some points are very hard for me to understand. Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: distcc and cross-compiling for FreeBSD on Linux/Solaris
On Oct 10, 2005, at 2:34 AM, Andrew P. wrote: We've got some mostly idle, but powerful sparc64 servers running Solaris 9/10, as well as a host of Linux servers (x86 and x86_64). Of course, all the real work is done on a pack of FreeBSD boxes :-) Some days ago I started using ccache and distcc, and I really love these tools. Now I want to get the Solaris and Linux servers to do something useful and compile world, kernels and ports for the FreeBSD boxes. Is there a somewhat comprehensive guide to this? Can somebody share his experience with me? I'm now looking into crosstool how-to's, but I have no knowledge of gcc intrinsics, and some points are very hard for me to understand. Thanks, Andrew P. Good luck with that effort. Not to treat it as the feat is entirely impossible, but I'm not sure how you would approach it without using GNU lib stuff since linux runs via GNU libs whereas FreeBSD uses their own libc package. Not only that, you would have to have equivalent compiling tools, have the libs compiled for multiple archs, etc. It's a fairly large project that many companies are actually working on right now for making into reality since computing clusters are becoming so prevalent nowadays. Anyhow... not impossible (well, maybe for the kernel end of things, but not some of the packages in world or ports), but good luck ;)! -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: distcc and cross-compiling for FreeBSD on Linux/Solaris
Andrew P. wrote: We've got some mostly idle, but powerful sparc64 servers running Solaris 9/10, as well as a host of Linux servers (x86 and x86_64). Of course, all the real work is done on a pack of FreeBSD boxes :-) Some days ago I started using ccache and distcc, and I really love these tools. Now I want to get the Solaris and Linux servers to do something useful and compile world, kernels and ports for the FreeBSD boxes. Is there a somewhat comprehensive guide to this? Can somebody share his experience with me? I'm now looking into crosstool how-to's, but I have no knowledge of gcc intrinsics, and some points are very hard for me to understand. Thanks, Andrew P. Have you looked at http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/projects/other/distcc-31.0.81/linuxdoc/html/distcc-5.html It hints that you need to install a gcc that was built for your target system on all machines that you're using. I think distcc handles library inconsitencies for you (at least it claims that you need not have the same libraries installed on all machines). HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: distcc and cross-compiling for FreeBSD on Linux/Solaris
In the last episode (Oct 10), Garrett Cooper said: On Oct 10, 2005, at 2:34 AM, Andrew P. wrote: We've got some mostly idle, but powerful sparc64 servers running Solaris 9/10, as well as a host of Linux servers (x86 and x86_64). Of course, all the real work is done on a pack of FreeBSD boxes :-) Some days ago I started using ccache and distcc, and I really love these tools. Now I want to get the Solaris and Linux servers to do something useful and compile world, kernels and ports for the FreeBSD boxes. Is there a somewhat comprehensive guide to this? Can somebody share his experience with me? I'm now looking into crosstool how-to's, but I have no knowledge of gcc intrinsics, and some points are very hard for me to understand. Good luck with that effort. Not to treat it as the feat is entirely impossible, but I'm not sure how you would approach it without using GNU lib stuff since linux runs via GNU libs whereas FreeBSD uses their own libc package. Distcc takes care to only pass preprocessed source to remote hosts, and only distributes source-object compile requests, so you don't need FreeBSD headers or libraries on the other systems; just a cross-compiler. I can't help with setting up cross-compilers, but since there's a FAQ entry on it ( http://distcc.samba.org/faq.html#cross-compile ), doing what you want is certainly possible. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: distcc and cross-compiling for FreeBSD on Linux/Solaris
On Oct 10, 2005, at 7:01 AM, Micah wrote: Andrew P. wrote: We've got some mostly idle, but powerful sparc64 servers running Solaris 9/10, as well as a host of Linux servers (x86 and x86_64). Of course, all the real work is done on a pack of FreeBSD boxes :-) Some days ago I started using ccache and distcc, and I really love these tools. Now I want to get the Solaris and Linux servers to do something useful and compile world, kernels and ports for the FreeBSD boxes. Is there a somewhat comprehensive guide to this? Can somebody share his experience with me? I'm now looking into crosstool how-to's, but I have no knowledge of gcc intrinsics, and some points are very hard for me to understand. Thanks, Andrew P. Have you looked at http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ projects/other/distcc-31.0.81/linuxdoc/html/distcc-5.html It hints that you need to install a gcc that was built for your target system on all machines that you're using. I think distcc handles library inconsitencies for you (at least it claims that you need not have the same libraries installed on all machines). HTH, Micah IIRC, I think that the libraries are needed, but are semi- modular in the sense that all that you need to do is grab the libs and make sure your compiler is equivalent (ie no mixing gcc with cc, etc), and include the libs in your compilation. Not sure how you are going to grab the libs for FreeBSD though without possibly CVSup'ing the source, which I'm not saying is impossible-just a minute pain. So, in essence I may have been a bit too pessimistic about the task. I didn't really get into the subject of distcc though I suppose and should have read a bit more in-depth articles earlier. I was just exploring instruction sets for compiling via the similar architecture for a LAN distcc farm, but gave up after realizing there were far too many clients with differing archs from my own, and the benefit wasn't worth my time since it was all for charity. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
