RFC: "Crochet" build tool
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Mar 27 00:20:27 UTC 2013
On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
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> On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Werner Thie <werner at thieprojects.ch> wrote:
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>> Is nanoBSD or tinyBSD fit as basis for a cross platform effort?
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> No, not really.
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> They're very x86-specific, but then, so was FreeBSD for the longest time.
Actually, they aren't. I've built nano images for both arm and mips....
> Given the recent advances including a flash-based filesystems for FreeBSD, and being able to co-opt the cross-compiler chain from linux where clang does not yet support cross compilation (e.g. mips) has brought FreeBSD to a point where (finally) the issues around embedded finally are illuminated.
Yes, but external cross compile patches have been available for a long time...
Warneer
> tl;dr: This has been anticipated for a long time.
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> Jim
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> (Other BSDs? I know not of any other BSDs. There can be only one.)
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