Building Kyua inside qemu mips VM

[Adrian Chadd]

... ask the ports people to support cross-building as a "thing" one can do?

All of those ports you've mentioned should be a perfectly good target
for cross-building; I've done them before individually.



-adrian


On 15 February 2015 at 10:23, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> I am continuing on the work started in the Hackathon which
> you organized in January.  I have this Jenkins job which
> builds a UFS image built for mips using the MALTA kernel config:
>
> https://jenkins.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD_HEAD_mips32_be/
>
> I am using this invocation of QEMU to boot the image with 256MB RAM:
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/MipsEmulation#Configuring_QEMU
>
> I am now trying to build /usr/ports/devel/kyua
> inside the VM, so that I can do "cd /usr/tests ; kyua test" to run
> all the tests.
>
> However, building kyua and all its dependencies (atf, sqlite, lua, lutok)
> is taking a really long time inside this VM, on the order of many hours.
>
> Is there something I can do to boost performance so I can at least build
> kyua faster in this VM?
>
> --
> Craig