Hi! Jonathan Moore wrote: > I'm new coming from FreeBSD how does one build the kFreeBSD kernel and > install it.
A problem is that if you're not already running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, you likely don't have everything necessary to build or install it. Such as: Debian packaging tools, dpkg, some GNU utilities and scripts to automate the GRUB2 configuration. Typically with Debian, users run the installer and install our pre-built binaries. After that you can easily re-build any parts yourself from source. Our kernel is in the Debian source package "kfreebsd-10" and the procedure to build it is the same as for any Debian package (see below). $ apt-get source kfreebsd-10 $ sudo apt-get build-dep kfreebsd-10 $ cd kfreebsd-10-*/ && dpkg-buildpackage -g And here is a log from a Debian build machine building that package: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=kfreebsd-10&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=10.3~svn300087-1&stamp=1464439605 But if you're coming from FreeBSD I understand your preference to build it yourself from source. You can actually run the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD userland in a chroot or jail, with the original FreeBSD kernel. It perhaps makes more sense to start there. But building all of that yourself is difficult without starting from a minimal chroot with some pre-built binaries. I could make a tarball of this available, or perhaps a shellscript that builds such a chroot from .deb files (we have something like that already for Debian GNU/Linux called multistrap). What would be ideal is if that all could be cross-built from regular FreeBSD, or from Debian GNU/Linux, so that you don't need to trust any binaries provided by me/us. This is an area of ongoing research. We also have the Reproducible Builds effort so that, multiple parties shall soon be able to build the Debian packages from source and attest that the binaries Debian provides are authentic and trustworthy. > I installed the sources with synaptic but the makefile > fails. Thanks for the help. What OS were you trying to build it on? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org
