Building Less?

[Russell Haley]

Awesome, thanks for the src.conf files Michael, and thank you Ian for the
description.  It's kind of like the secret recipe! Together with the
memdisk method that Ganbold has suggested I should be able to bring down my
turn-around time.

Cheers,
Russ

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 22:15 -0700, Russell Haley wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've pivoted back to my ARM board again. I noticed that when I build
> world,
> > it builds all the man pages and languages and a whole bunch of other
> stuff.
> > That's not too bad because I have a decent computer, but when I run
> > installworld and install onto an sd card things get really slow.
> >
> > Is there a way to reduce what I am building and installing onto the sd
> card?
> >
> >
> > Current process:
> > make -DNO_CLEAN TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv6 -j10 buildworld
> >
> > make -DNO_CLEAN TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv6 KERNCONF=IMX6 -j10
> buildkernel
> >
> >  sudo mount /dev/da2s2 /usr/jails/Jailbird/mnt/ufspart
> >   make TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv6 DESTDIR=/mnt/ufspart installworld
> > distribution
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Russ
>
> Add to your crossbuild command line "srcconf=/some/path/src.conf" and in
> that src.conf file put a bunch of WITHOUT_foo commands to eliminate the
> things you don't need in the target system.  Iirc, you need a fully-
> qualified pathname in the srcconf=.
>
> "man src.conf" gives you the list of WITH/WITHOUT controls you can set.
>
> Be sure to keep your crossbuild src.conf file(s) separate from your
> main /etc/src.conf file that's used when you build the host system.
>
> -- Ian
>
>
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