Jenkins builds for non X86

[George Neville-Neil]

On 20 Mar 2015, at 10:22, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:14 PM, George Neville-Neil <gnn at neville-neil.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 20 Mar 2015, at 5:53, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:42 AM, George Neville-Neil <
>>> gnn at neville-neil.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Remind me, do the Jenkins builds try to build non-X86 stuff?  ARM?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At http://jenkins.freebsd.org we currently have:
>>>
>>> FreeBSD_HEAD_sparc64     -> builds sparc64 with existing gcc in base
>>>
>>> FreeBSD_HEAD_mip32_be
>>> FreeBSD_HEAD_mips32_le
>>> FreeBSD_HEAD_mips64_be
>>> FreeBSD_HEAD_mips64_le
>>>                                          -> builds various mips
>>> targets with existing gcc in base.
>>>                                              These are not running
>>> every day.
>>>
>>> Nothing for ARM yet.
>>>
>>>
>>> I set up this build:
>>> FreeBSD_HEAD_external_toolchain_gcc
>>>
>>> but it is failing due to a bug in the FreeBSD Makefiles with respect to
>>> setting --sysroot
>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-toolchain/
>>> 2015-March/001458.html
>>>
>>> Is that something you can help with?
>>>
>>> Proper external toolchain support will be helpful for ARM, ARM64, etc.
>>>
>>>
>> Warner (imp@) is working on this.  Do the MIPS builds use QEMU?  If so,
>> then why
>> not do ARM the same way for now?
>>
>>
>
> No, we don't build mips inside QEMU.  QEMU is very slow.
> Do you know when Warner will fix the --sysroot stuff with external
> toolchain?
> I sent an e-mail to freebsd-toolchain@ but got no response.

Email him directly.

If you do not use QEMU what do you use?

Best
George