On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Patrick Mahan wrote: > > Hopefully, this is not too ignorant a question. But has anyone every > built the FreeBSD sources, both kernel and apps, on a linux platform? > > I did a google on 'cross-compile freebsd (linux)' and found (mostly) > discussions regarding building the linux apps for FreeBSD, but not > for building a FreeBSD kernel and world. There was a brief discussion > on the mailing list back in 2005, but the poster never reported if > he had success or failure. Also, there were discussions about building > freebsd amd64 on a freebsd i386. > > I have done lots of development in linux using cross-compilers (mips > embedded systems, powerpc, etc). But not with FreeBSD. > > I know I'll need to use 'bsdmake' no gnu 'make'. The other worry is > kernel-toolchain target. I guess I'll just dive in and swim around > and see what happens.
You might want to ask the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD guys:
http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
I bet they've got a good idea :)
Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
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