reproducible builds of FreeBSD in a chroot on Linux

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm one of the people involved in
> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
> and have set up https://reproducible.debian.net which continously tests
> all
> packages in the Debian archive for build reproducibility (so far on amd64
> only).
>
> For those who don't know, reproducible builds enable everyone to
> independently
> verify that a given binary comes from specific source. This also allows to
> indirectly verify that one's build system has not been tempered with - and
> more. Please check the first URL of this mail for "the rest of the story".
>
> And then someone pointed me to https://wiki.freebsd.org/ReproducibleBuilds
> - kudos for how far you already!(!!)
>
> So now I would like to build freebsd myself, twice, and compare the results
> and show these results as in
> https://reproducible.debian.net/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/gcc-4.9.html - and
> then
> quite probably set up a jenkins job on jenkins.debian.net and do this
> every
> week.
>
> Here's the catch: I have basically no clue about freebsd - and I want to
> build on Debian linux (on amd64) in a chroot. (And, it will need you
> people to
> look at the results and eventually fix them!) ;-)
>
> So maybe can you help me with my next step. I've found the github freebsd
> repo and cloned it, how to proceed further now?
>
> $ make buildworld
> Makefile:137: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
> in the master branch of git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd wasn't right..
> :/ ;)
>
>
>

FreeBSD "make" and  Linux "make" are different .
In Linux , try "bmake" .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk


Thanks for any help and pointers! I've tried to find documentation on this
> but
> had no luck so I figured  I could just ask...
>
>
> cheers,
>         Holger
>
> (please cc: me I'm not subscribed.)
>