buildworld questions.

[graudeejs]

I want to build my FreeBSD 7 from sources....
I wanna know which distributions do i need under src?
What i mean is when installing distributions i sellect src and under that, there are some crap that i don't need, like games....
My question is what do i need to build FreeBSD from minimal sources....


as far as i see i need
BASE
sys
sbin
bin
man < might skip, but it's way better when you can take a look at help
share
maybe some more...

Also should i update my source tree with CSUP?
if so what would be recomended tags etc, if i want to stay on as much stable as possible (i think i need RELENG_7 or RENENG_7_0, again, i don't rememeber exact name, and have no time to google atm..., these to got me confused when i was reading handbook)

P.S. I'm writing this from memory on windows system....


Thanks in advance, i hope you understand what i want to know.

[Carpetsmoker]

You will need all of them for a buildworld.

STABLE is RELENG_7
7.0 RELEASE is RELENG_7_0

Also should i update my source tree with CSUP?

Yes

[TerryP]

/sr/src/README gives an overview of what is in each although most of that is obvious.

in regards to the contents of /usr/src:

you need cddl for zfs
you need crypto and secure for open ssh/ssl -> crypto = source, secure/* = makefiles
you need bin -> this is code for /bin/*
you need sbin -> this is code for /sbin/*
you need usr.bin -> this is code for /usr/bin/*
you need usr.sbin -> this is code for /usr/sbin/*
you might want kerboos5
you want etc
you want share
you want include
you need libexec
you need lib


If you want a fully functional system you want contrib and gnu

gnu code should generally be in contrib but makefiles and extras in gnu/*.


best reasons to have contrib:

bc, bind, bzip2, cpio, cvs, diff, file, gcc, gdb, gperf, groff -> man page formatter!, less -> pager more and less, libstdc++ -> (gnu) standard C++ library, lukemftp/lukemftpd -> ftp client and server, ncurses -> needed for console TUI, netcat, (n)vi, (one true)awk, pam, pf, sendmail, tcsh, top, traceroute, wpa_supplicant.


Generally speaking, it's just easier to grab the whole tree +/- games unless you have a specific objective in mind like building a system that will only be used to do foo but never bar without change.


You should also look into the build system if you need to do that.

[Carpetsmoker]

Generally speaking, it's just easier to grab the whole tree +/- games

What games? The BSD games got removed from FreeBSD base in the 5 release and moved to games/freebsd-games.

[graudeejs]

i still see game sources on my FreeBSD CD
Also a package called games is available


Anyway, i think i found a way to avoid games

[18Googol2]

Originally Posted by killasmurf

i still see game sources on my FreeBSD CD
Also a package called games is available


Anyway, i think i found a way to avoid games

Noooo, game under FreeBSD is gooood.

Have you heard about "fortune"? Try it if you havent

[Carpetsmoker]

Those are not games, they are just some utilities which are in the directory games for historical reasons.

[18Googol2]

Thats why I said "game under FreeBSD"

[TerryP]

I guess that explains why the stuff in /usr/games is so much more boring then on OpenBSD 4.0.... hehehe

[graudeejs]

i will configure my make.conf
does anyone know how to get info if i have to set
pentium4 pentium4m or presscot for CPUTYPE?
How to check which one i'm running.....
I know it's Pentium 4 presscot, because it's heating very much.... but does that means i can use presscot for compilation?
I know pentium4 is safe choise

[Carpetsmoker]

With gcc 4 (i.e. FreeBSD 7) you can just use -march=auto