Re: Curious minds .. etc
- In reply to: Konstantin Belousov : "Re: Curious minds .. etc"
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:03:20 UTC
On 22 Oct 2021, at 14.05, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 01:07:47AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >> Several years ago (OK, maybe 12 years ago) I did an experiment where I >> unpacked a >> freebsd 1.1 (or maybe 2.0?) image into a subdirectory, and after installing >> various >> compat packagesand options and a.out support and changing MAX_PID to be >> 60000, I was able to >> chroot to it and do a "make world". Things were stupidly fast. >> >> >> Has anyone been able to do such a thing in recent years? One wonders what >> options one >> would need and what the oldest Version we could run in this way was.. > > Yes, I added support for a.out to amd64, and wrote man page which documents > all details that are relevant there, see aout(4). > I have a 2.2.5 vbox image, with 256M mem and 1CPU (crashes with SMP) does buildworld in just under 4 minutes on 1 core from a i9 9900k. -- Søren Schmidt sos@deepcore.dk / sos@freebsd.org "So much code to hack, so little time"