On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Roland Smith <rsm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:40:02PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I've just installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on my Mac Mini G4 (powerpc) - >> Can I use my other, and much faster, machine(amd64) to compile world >> and kernel to either populate /usr/obj or to generate base.txz, and >> kernel.txz? > > It should be possible. See e.g. this article: > http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2006/09/cross-building-freebsd.html >
Hm, that didn't help me much. I've already built both the kernel and world on my amd64 machine. > You do have to look up what the correct values of TARGET and TARGET_ARCH are > on powerpc. IIRC, the G4 is 32-bit. So according to running 'make target' in > /usr/src, it should be TARGET="powerpc" and TARGET_ARCH="powerpc". > There is no reason to add TARGET_ARCH when TARGET==TARGET_ARCH :) > If you use the DESTDIR variable on the build command line, you can put the > generated world and kernel in a separate directory, the contents of which you > can then copy (e.g. with tar|nc or with rsync) to /usr/obj on the Mac Mini. > Well, that is the question. How to copy those file over. Files have special chflags (for instance in /lib) > Personally, 9.0 is the first release where I haven't bothered to build a > custom kernel, because the GENERIC kernel seems to have everything I need > built-in or available as a module. And neither have I bothered yet with > building a custom world. > I agree. But there tend to be some erratas when the time comes. (And there is no freebsd-update on ppc) And building on a PPC is a pain :) -- chs, _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"