Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a Soekris 4801

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20050619155228.Y6413 at fledge.watson.org>
            Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> writes:
: NanoBSD world yet.  Most are relatively minor -- the big issue is devd, 
: which is something that probably is needed in the embedded world.  I think 
: what NanoBSD wants isn't NO_CXX, it's DONT_INSTALL_BUILDTOOLS -- don't 
: need a compiler, but using C++ applications should be fine.

The big problem is that there's not a build environment separate from
the install environment.  At work, we created a system that has this
separation, and it has proven invaluable.  The current NO_FOO knobs
aren't useful in the BUILD phase, bare are moderately useful in the
install phase (we actually go a step further, and just have a list of
directories to do an install from).

This is the single reason that I've not pushed to migrate our build
system at work to using nanobsd as its base...

Warner