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Once this document is completely in sync with reality, this paragraph will be removed. .Pp Discrepancies between this documentation and the current reality of implementation are noted specially, as with the note below: .Pp .Em Note : This document applies only to platforms which use the new toolchain as indicated by the setting of .Sy USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN in .Sy /etc/mk.conf or .Aq bsd.own.mk . Platforms which have not yet been switched to the new toolchain should continue building traditionally, using the notes specified in the file .Sy UPDATING . . .Sh REQUIREMENTS . .Nx is designed to be buildable on most POSIX-compliant host systems. The basic build procedure is the same whether compiling .Em natively (on the same .Nx architecture) or .Em cross compiling (on another architecture or OS). .Pp This source tree contains a special subtree, .Dq tools , which uses the host system to create a build toolchain for the target architecture. The host system must have at least C and C++ compilers in order to create the toolchain .Nm ( make is not required); all other tools are created as part of the .Nx build process. .Pp .Bd -ragged -offset indent .Em Note : A couple host toolchain components are not yet available in the tools directory. Also, some tools use non-POSIX, non-ANSI C extensions and need to be standardized. As a result, cross-compiling from systems other than .Nx is not currently supported. .Ed . .Sh FILES . .Ss Source tree layout . .Bl -tag -width "BUILDING.mdoc" .It Sy BUILDING.mdoc This document (in -mdoc troff format; the original copy). .It Sy BUILDING.html This document (in formatted HTML). .It Sy BUILDING.txt This document (in plaintext). .It Sy Makefile The main Makefile for .Nx ; should only be run for native builds with an appropriately up-to-date version of .Nx .Xr make 1 . (For building from out-of-date systems or on a non-native host, see the .Nm build.sh shell script.) .It Sy UPDATING Special notes for updating from an earlier revision of .Nx . It is important to read this file before every build of an updated source tree. .It Sy build.sh Bourne-compatible shell script used for building the host build tools and the .Nx system from scratch. Can be used for both native and cross builds, and should be used instead of .Xr make 1 for any source tree that is updated and recompiled regularly. .It Sy crypto/dist/ , dist/ , gnu/dist/ Sources imported verbatim from third parties, without mangling the existing build structure. Other source trees in .Sy bin through .Sy usr.sbin use the .Nx .Xr make 1 .Dq reachover Makefile semantics when building these programs for a native host. .It Sy distrib/ , etc/ Sources for items used when making a full release snapshot, such as files installed in .Sy /etc on the destination system, boot media, and release notes. .It Sy regress/ Regression test harness. Can be cross-compiled, but only run natively. .It Sy sys/ .Nx kernel sources. .It Sy tools/ .Dq Reachover build structure for the host build tools. This has a special method of determining out-of-date status. .It Sy bin/ ... usr.sbin/ Sources to the .Nx userland (non-kernel) programs. If any of these directories are missing, they will be skipped during the build. .El . .Ss Build tree layout . The .Nx build tree is described in .Xr hier 7 , and the release layout is described in .Xr release 7 . .Pp . .Sh CONFIGURATION . .Ss "make" variables . .de YorN Can be set to .Dq yes or .Dq no . .. .de DFLT .Pp .Em Default : .. .de DFLTu .DFLT Unset. .. .de DFLTy .DFLT .Dq yes .. .de DFLTn .DFLT .Dq no .. Several variables control the behavior of .Nx builds. Unless otherwise specified, these variables may be set in either the process environment or the .Xr make 1 configuration file specified by .Sy MAKECONF . . .Bl -tag -width "MKCATPAGES" . .It Sy DESTDIR Directory to contain the built .Nx system. If set, special options are passed to the compilation tools to prevent their default use of the host system's .Sy /usr/include , /usr/lib , and so forth. This pathname should .Em not end with a slash .Pq / character (for installation into the system's root directory, set .Sy DESTDIR to an empty string). .DFLT Empty string if .Sy USETOOLS is .Dq yes ; unset otherwise. . .It Sy MAKECONF The name of the .Xr make 1 configuration file. .Em Only settable in the process environment. .DFLT .Dq /etc/mk.conf . .It Sy MKCATPAGES .YorN Indicates whether preformatted plaintext manual pages will be created during a build. .DFLTy . .It Sy MKCRYPTO .YorN Indicates whether cryptographic code will be included in a build; provided for the benefit of countries that do not allow strong cryptography. Will not affect use of the standard low-security password encryption system, .Xr crypt 3 . .DFLTy . .It Sy MKDOC .YorN Indicates whether system documentation destined for .Sy /usr/share/doc will be installed during a build. .DFLTy . .It Sy MKINFO .YorN Indicates whether GNU Info files, used for the documentation for most of the compilation tools, will be created and installed during a build. .DFLTy . .It Sy MKLINT .YorN Indicates whether .Xr lint 1 will be run against portions of the .Nx source code during the build, and whether lint libraries will be installed into .Sy /usr/libdata/lint . .DFLTy . .It Sy MKMAN .YorN Indicates whether manual pages will be installed during a build. .DFLTy . .It Sy MKNLS .YorN Indicates whether Native Language System locale zone files will be compiled and installed during a build. .DFLTy . .It Sy MKOBJ .YorN Indicates whether object directories will be created when running .Dq make obj . If set to .Dq no , then all built files will be located inside the regular source tree. .DFLTy . .It Sy MKPIC .YorN Indicates whether shared objects and libraries will be created and installed during a build. If set to .Dq no , the entire built system will be statically linked. .DFLT Platform dependent. As of this writing, all platforms except .Sy sh3 default to .Dq yes . . .It Sy MKPICINSTALL .YorN Indicates whether the .Xr ar 1 format libraries .Sy ( lib*_pic.a ) , used to generate shared libraries, are installed during a build. .DFLTy . .It Sy MKPROFILE .YorN Indicates whether profiled libraries .Sy ( lib*_p.a ) will be built and installed during a build. .DFLT .Dq yes ; however, some platforms turn off .Sy MKPROFILE by default at times due to toolchain problems with profiled code. . .It Sy MKSHARE .YorN Indicates whether files destined to reside in .Sy /usr/share will be built and installed during a build. If set to .Dq no , then all of .Sy MKCATPAGES , MKDOC , MKINFO , MKMAN , and .Sy MKNLS will be set to .Dq no unconditionally. .DFLTy . .It Sy TOOLDIR Directory to hold the host tools, once built. This directory should be unique to a given host system and .Nx source tree. (However, multiple targets may share the same .Sy TOOLDIR ; the target-dependent files have unique names.) Must be set if USETOOLS is .Dq yes . .DFLTu . .It Sy UPDATE If set, then all install operations intended to write to .Sy DESTDIR will compare file timestamps before installing, and skip the install phase if the destination files are up-to-date. This also has implications on full builds (see next subsection). .DFLTu . .It Sy USETOOLS Indicates whether the tools specified by .Sy TOOLDIR should be used as part of a build in progress. Must be set to .Dq yes if cross-compiling. .Bl -tag -width "never" .It Sy yes Use the tools from .Sy TOOLDIR . .It Sy no Do not use the tools from .Sy TOOLDIR , but refuse to build native compilation tool components that are version-specific for that tool. .It Sy never Do not use the tools from .Sy TOOLDIR , even when building native tool components. This is similar to the traditional .Nx build method, but does .Em not verify that the compilation tools in use are up-to-date enough in order to build the tree successfully. This may cause build or runtime problems when building the whole .Nx source tree. .El .DFLT .Dq yes if building all or part of a whole .Nx source tree (detected automatically); .Dq no otherwise (to preserve traditional semantics of the .Aq bsd.*.mk .Xr make 1 include files). .Pp .Em Note : Currently, the .Dq no option functions similarly to the .Dq never option. Proper checks will be added in the near future to add the described functionality for version-specific tool components. . .El . .Ss "make" variables for full builds These variables only affect the top level .Dq Makefile and do not manually building subtrees of the .Nx source code. . .Bl -tag -width "NODISTRIBDIRS" . .It Sy MKOBJDIRS .YorN Indicates whether object directories will be created automatically (via a .Dq make obj pass) at the start of a build. .DFLTy . .It Sy MKTOOLS Indicates whether the host tools will be built and installed automatically if they are out-of-date. .Bl -tag -width "never" .It Sy yes Build tools as needed into .Sy TOOLDIR , but only if the tools in question are out-of-date. .It Sy no Do not update the tools in .Sy TOOLDIR ; halt the build as a safety precaution if tools are out-of-date. .It Sy always Always rebuild the tools in .Sy TOOLDIR from scratch during a build. This is similar to the standard .Nx source tree build method, but is not typically required for host tools. .El .DFLTn . .It Sy NBUILDJOBS If set, specifies the number of parallel .Xr make 1 processes that should be run simultaneously. This can speed up builds on SMP machines, or machines with much more CPU power than I/O availability. This should be used .Em instead of the .Xr make 1 option .Sy -j , in order to ensure proper ordering of build components. .DFLTu . .It Sy NOCLEANDIR If set, avoids the .Dq make cleandir phase of a full build. This has the effect of allowing only changed files in a source tree to be recompiled. This can speed up builds when updating only a few files in the tree. .DFLTu . .It Sy NODISTRIBDIRS If set, avoids the .Dq make distrib-dirs phase of a full build. This skips running .Xr mtree 1 on .Sy DESTDIR , useful on systems where building as an unprivileged user, or where it is known that the system-wide mtree files have not changed. .DFLTu . .It Sy NOINCLUDES If set, avoids the .Dq make includes phase of a full build. This has the effect of preventing .Xr make 1 from thinking that some programs are out-of-date simply because the system include files have changed. However, this option should not be used when updating the entire .Nx source tree arbitrarily; it is suggested to use .Sy UPDATE in that case. .DFLTu . .It Sy RELEASEDIR If set, specifies the directory to which a .Xr release 7 layout will be written at the end of a .Dq make release . .DFLTu . .It Sy UPDATE If set, then in addition to the effects described for UPDATE above, this implies the effects of .Sy NOCLEANDIR . . .El . .Sh BUILDING . .Ss "make" command line options This is only a summary of options available to .Xr make 1 ; only the options used most frequently with .Nx builds are listed here. . .Bl -tag -width "var=value" . .It Sy -m Em dir Specify the default directory for searching for system Makefile segments, mainly the .Aq bsd.*.mk files. When building any full .Nx source tree, this should be set to the .Dq share/mk directory in the source tree. (This is set automatically when building from the top level.) . .It Sy -n Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not actually execute them. This will still cause recursion to take place. . .It Sy -v Em var Print .Xr make 1 's idea of the value of .Em var . Does not build any targets. . .It Em var=value Set the variable .Em var to .Em value , overriding any setting specified by the process environment, the .Sy MAKECONF configuration file, or the system Makefile segments. . .El . .Ss "make" targets . These default targets may be built by running .Xr make 1 in any subtree of the .Nx source code. It is recommended that none of these be used from the top level Makefile; as a specific exception, .Dq make obj and .Dq make cleandir are useful in that context. . .Bl -tag -width "dependall" . .It Sy all Build programs, libraries, and preformatted documentation. . .It Sy clean Remove program and library object code files. . .It Sy cleandir Same as .Sy clean , but also remove preformatted documentation, dependency files generated by .Dq make depend , and any other files known to be created at build time. .Dq make distclean may be used as a synonym, for familiarity with a similar well-known convention. . .It Sy depend Create dependency files .Sy ( .depend ) containing more detailed information about the dependencies of source code on header files. Allows programs to be recompiled automatically when a dependency changes. . .It Sy dependall Does a .Dq make depend immediately followed by a .Dq make all . This combined target recurses as an atomic unit, so that the .Dq make depend phase can participate in .Sy make -j parallelism. . .It Sy includes Build and install system header files. Typically needed before any system libraries or programs can be built. . .It Sy install Install programs, libraries, and documentation into .Sy DESTDIR . . .It Sy lint Run .Xr lint 1 against the C source code, where appropriate, and generate system-installed lint libraries. . .It Sy obj Create object directories to be used for built files, instead of building directly in the source tree. . .It Sy tags Create .Xr ctags 1 searchable function lists usable by the .Xr ex 1 and .Xr vi 1 text editors. . .El . .Ss "make" targets for the top level . Additional .Xr make 1 targets are usable specifically from the top source level to facilitate building the entire .Nx source tree. . .Bl -tag -width "dependall" . .It Sy build Build the entire .Nx system. This orders portions of the source tree such that prerequisites will be built in the proper order. . .It Sy release Do a .Dq make build , then package the system into a standard release layout as described by .Xr release 7 . This requires that .Sy RELEASEDIR be set (see above). . .It Sy regression-tests Can only be run after building the regression tests in the directory .Dq regress . Runs the compiled regression tests on the local host. . .El . .Ss The "build.sh" script . This script file is a Bourne shell script designed to build the entire .Nx system on any host with a Bourne shell in .Sy /bin/sh , including many that are not POSIX compliant. Note that if a host system's .Sy /bin/sh is unusually old and broken, the Korn Shell .Sy ( /bin/ksh ) , if available, may be a usable alternative. .Pp All cross-compile builds, and most native builds, of the entire system should make use of .Sy build.sh rather than just running .Dq make . This way, the .Xr make 1 program will be bootstrapped properly, in case the host system has an older or incompatible .Dq make program. .Pp When compiling the entire system via .Sy build.sh , many .Xr make 1 variables are set for you in order to help encapsulate the build process. In particular, both .Sy USETOOLS and .Sy MKTOOLS are set to .Dq yes , and .Sy MACHINE_ARCH (if unset) is deduced from the value of .Sy MACHINE . .Pp The variables .Sy DESTDIR , MACHINE , MACHINE_ARCH , and .Sy TOOLDIR are required in order for .Sy build.sh to function, and thus they cannot be set in the configuration file specified by .Sy MAKECONF . They may be set either in the process environment, or via command line options to .Sy build.sh . .Pp The following are available command line options that may be supplied to .Sy build.sh : . .Bl -tag -width "-T tools" . .It Sy -a Em arch Set the value of .Sy MACHINE_ARCH to .Em arch . . .It Sy -D Em dest Set the value of .Sy DESTDIR to .Em dest . . .It Sy -j Em njob Set the value of .Sy NBUILDJOBS to .Em njob . This provides similar functionality to the familiar .Dq make -j , but preserves the ordering of the top level .Dq make build . . .It Sy -m Em mach Set the value of .Sy MACHINE to .Em mach . This will also override any value of .Sy MACHINE_ARCH in the process environment with a value deduced from .Em mach , unless .Sy -a is specified. . .It Sy -R Em rel Set the value of .Sy RELEASEDIR to .Em rel . Setting this option will make .Sy build.sh run .Dq make release instead of .Dq make build . . .It Sy -r Remove the contents of .Sy DESTDIR and .Sy TOOLDIR before building (provides a clean starting point). . .It Sy -T Em tools Set the value of .Sy TOOLDIR to .Em tools . . .El . .Sh The "nbmake-MACHINE" wrapper script . If using the .Sy build.sh script to build .Nx , a .Sy nbmake-MACHINE script will be created in .Sy TOOLDIR/bin upon the first build to assist in building subtrees on a cross-compile host. .Pp .Sy nbmake-MACHINE can be invoked in lieu of .Xr make 1 , and will instead call the up-to-date version of .Dq nbmake installed into .Sy TOOLDIR/bin with several key variables pre-set, including .Sy MACHINE , MACHINE_ARCH , and .Sy TOOLDIR . This script can be symlinked into a directory listed in .Sy PATH , or called with an absolute path. . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr make 1 , .Xr hier 7 , .Xr release 7 . .Sh BUGS . Many platforms are not yet using the .Sy USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system. . .Sh HISTORY . The .Sy USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN based build scheme was introduced in the .Dq NetBSD-current development sources between .Nx 1.5 and .Nx 1.6.