Building FreeBSD from source on OS X?

 Greetings.


 Recently i acquired an intel-based Mac mini and would like
to build
FreeBSD on it, but the mini needs to be (always) running OS
X, because of
other duties (DVR) it has.

 Is it possible to build FreeBSD from source on OS X running
on intel
hardware?

I've tried the straight forward "make" in the
source area, but it appears
that OS X's make is actually gnu make, and it doesn't like
the FreeBSD
makefiles. I have the NetBSD pkgsrc system setup, and have a
"bmake" which
gets a little further when trying to build
/usr/src/usr/bin/make, but
still has some problems.

Before i go any further with this, i wanted to check and see
if this is
even possible.

 Anyone know?

 -johan
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On 2007-12-31 16:33, "Johan A. van Zanten"
<johangiantfoo.org> wrote:
> Greetings.
> Recently i acquired an intel-based Mac mini and would
like to build
> FreeBSD on it, but the mini needs to be (always)
running OS X, because
> of other duties (DVR) it has.
> 
> Is it possible to build FreeBSD from source on OS X
running on intel
> hardware?
> 
> I've tried the straight forward "make" in the
source area, but it
> appears that OS X's make is actually gnu make, and it
doesn't like the
> FreeBSD makefiles. I have the NetBSD pkgsrc system
setup, and have a
> "bmake" which gets a little further when
trying to build
> /usr/src/usr/bin/make, but still has some problems.
> 
> Before i go any further with this, i wanted to check
and see if this
> is even possible.

I think one of the best options right now is to use
Parallels, or some
other virtualization system.

BTW, I'm trying to 'port' FreeBSD make to make it buildable
with
autoconf, and automake, so that it is easier to run
freebsd-make on
non-FreeBSD systems, but there's still a lot of work before
this is
usable for building a full FreeBSD source tree.

- Giorgos

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