Building Kyua inside qemu mips VM

[Craig Rodrigues]

Hi,

Have you tried any of these options to cross-build ports:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuUserModeHowTo

Those options look complicated, but workable.
--
Craig


On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> ... 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
>