Re: building a "shrinked" NetBSD-System via build.sh (optional: on Linux-host)

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Another option would be to complete the build the sets as usual, and
to use src/distrib/utils/embedded/mkimage to make the final image for
you.

Best,
Alistair

On 21 May 2017 at 11:16, Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2017 16:39:57 +0200
> Marcus Osdoba <marcus.osdoba%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> recently, I tried to build a "minimal" NetBSD-System for an old
>> thin-client with x86 hardware and a 128MiB flash card.
>>
>> As nearly everything is buildable from source, I started with
>> crosscompiling [0] for the i386-like target on one of my Linux boxes
>> (Debian Wheezy amd64) and a userdefined mk.conf [1]. When building on
>> a NetBSD/x64 vm I wasn't able to convince the builder to use more
>> than one make-process even when calling explicitly with "-j 4".
>> That's why I finally stayed with the Wheezy-host.
>
> I've never noticed any issues with parallel builds. I use the following
> build script (NetBSD sources are kept under /opt/src and /opt/xsrc) to
> build either sets or complete release:
>
> MACHINE_ARCH=amd64
> WORK_DIR=/opt
>
> # Build sets
> #cd $WORK_DIR/src && /bin/sh ./build.sh -j 4 -u -m $MACHINE_ARCH \
> #       -X $WORK_DIR/xsrc \
> #       -O $WORK_DIR/obj.$MACHINE_ARCH -T $WORK_DIR/tools.$MACHINE_ARCH \
> #       distribution sets 2>&1 | tee /scripts/log.$MACHINE_ARCH
>
> # Build complete release
> cd $WORK_DIR/src && /bin/sh ./build.sh -j 4 -u -m $MACHINE_ARCH \
>         -X $WORK_DIR/xsrc \
>         -O $WORK_DIR/obj.$MACHINE_ARCH -T $WORK_DIR/tools.$MACHINE_ARCH \
>         release 2>&1 | tee /scripts/log.$MACHINE_ARCH
>