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1 BUILDING(8) NetBSD System Manager's Manual BUILDING(8) 2 3 NAME 4 BUILDING - Procedure for building NetBSD from source code. 5 6 STATUS 7 This document is a work-in-progress. As such, the information described 8 here may not match the reality of the build system as of this writing. 9 Once this document is completely in sync with reality, this paragraph 10 will be removed. 11 12 Discrepancies between this documentation and the current reality of im- 13 plementation are noted specially, as with the note below: 14 15 Note: This document applies only to platforms which use the new toolchain 16 as indicated by the setting of USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN in /etc/mk.conf or 17 <bsd.own.mk>. Platforms which have not yet been switched to the new 18 toolchain should continue building traditionally, using the notes speci- 19 fied in the file UPDATING. 20 21 REQUIREMENTS 22 NetBSD is designed to be buildable on most POSIX-compliant host systems. 23 The basic build procedure is the same whether compiling natively (on the 24 same NetBSD architecture) or cross compiling (on another architecture or 25 OS). 26 27 This source tree contains a special subtree, ``tools'', which uses the 28 host system to create a build toolchain for the target architecture. The 29 host system must have at least C and C++ compilers in order to create the 30 toolchain (make is not required); all other tools are created as part of 31 the NetBSD build process. 32 33 Note: A couple host toolchain components are not yet available in 34 the tools directory. Also, some tools use non-POSIX, non-ANSI C 35 extensions and need to be standardized. As a result, cross-compil- 36 ing from systems other than NetBSD is not currently supported. 37 38 FILES 39 Source tree layout 40 41 BUILDING.mdoc This document (in -mdoc troff format; the original copy). 42 43 BUILDING.html This document (in formatted HTML). 44 45 BUILDING.txt This document (in plaintext). 46 47 Makefile The main Makefile for NetBSD; should only be run for na- 48 tive builds with an appropriately up-to-date version of 49 NetBSD make(1). (For building from out-of-date systems or 50 on a non-native host, see the build.sh shell script.) 51 52 UPDATING Special notes for updating from an earlier revision of 53 NetBSD. It is important to read this file before every 54 build of an updated source tree. 55 56 build.sh Bourne-compatible shell script used for building the host 57 build tools and the NetBSD system from scratch. Can be 58 used for both native and cross builds, and should be used 59 instead of make(1) for any source tree that is updated and 60 recompiled regularly. 61 62 crypto/dist/, dist/, gnu/dist/ 63 Sources imported verbatim from third parties, without man- 64 gling the existing build structure. Other source trees in 65 bin through usr.sbin use the NetBSD make(1) ``reachover'' 66 Makefile semantics when building these programs for a na- 67 tive host. 68 69 distrib/, etc/ 70 Sources for items used when making a full release snap- 71 shot, such as files installed in /etc on the destination 72 system, boot media, and release notes. 73 74 regress/ Regression test harness. Can be cross-compiled, but only 75 run natively. 76 77 sys/ NetBSD kernel sources. 78 79 tools/ ``Reachover'' build structure for the host build tools. 80 This has a special method of determining out-of-date sta- 81 tus. 82 83 bin/ ... usr.sbin/ 84 Sources to the NetBSD userland (non-kernel) programs. If 85 any of these directories are missing, they will be skipped 86 during the build. 87 88 Build tree layout 89 The NetBSD build tree is described in hier(7), and the release layout is 90 described in release(7). 91 92 CONFIGURATION 93 "make" variables 94 Several variables control the behavior of NetBSD builds. Unless other- 95 wise specified, these variables may be set in either the process environ- 96 ment or the make(1) configuration file specified by MAKECONF. 97 98 DESTDIR Directory to contain the built NetBSD system. If set, spe- 99 cial options are passed to the compilation tools to prevent 100 their default use of the host system's /usr/include, 101 /usr/lib, and so forth. This pathname should not end with a 102 slash (/) character (for installation into the system's root 103 directory, set DESTDIR to an empty string). 104 105 Default: Empty string if USETOOLS is ``yes''; unset other- 106 wise. 107 108 MAKECONF The name of the make(1) configuration file. Only settable in 109 the process environment. 110 111 Default: ``/etc/mk.conf'' 112 113 MKCATPAGES Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether prefor- 114 matted plaintext manual pages will be created during a build. 115 116 Default: ``yes'' 117 118 MKCRYPTO Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether crypto- 119 graphic code will be included in a build; provided for the 120 benefit of countries that do not allow strong cryptography. 121 Will not affect use of the standard low-security password en- 122 cryption system, crypt(3). 123 124 Default: ``yes'' 125 126 MKDOC Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether system 127 documentation destined for /usr/share/doc will be installed 128 during a build. 129 130 Default: ``yes'' 131 132 MKINFO Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether GNU Info 133 files, used for the documentation for most of the compilation 134 tools, will be created and installed during a build. 135 136 Default: ``yes'' 137 138 MKLINT Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether lint(1) 139 will be run against portions of the NetBSD source code during 140 the build, and whether lint libraries will be installed into 141 /usr/libdata/lint. 142 143 Default: ``yes'' 144 145 MKMAN Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether manual 146 pages will be installed during a build. 147 148 Default: ``yes'' 149 150 MKNLS Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether Native 151 Language System locale zone files will be compiled and in- 152 stalled during a build. 153 154 Default: ``yes'' 155 156 MKOBJ Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether object 157 directories will be created when running ``make obj''. If 158 set to ``no'', then all built files will be located inside 159 the regular source tree. 160 161 Default: ``yes'' 162 163 MKPIC Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether shared 164 objects and libraries will be created and installed during a 165 build. If set to ``no'', the entire built system will be 166 statically linked. 167 168 Default: Platform dependent. As of this writing, all plat- 169 forms except sh3 default to ``yes''. 170 171 MKPICINSTALL 172 Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether the ar(1) 173 format libraries (lib*_pic.a), used to generate shared li- 174 braries, are installed during a build. 175 176 Default: ``yes'' 177 178 MKPROFILE Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether profiled 179 libraries (lib*_p.a) will be built and installed during a 180 build. 181 182 Default: ``yes''; however, some platforms turn off MKPROFILE 183 by default at times due to toolchain problems with profiled 184 code. 185 186 MKSHARE Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether files 187 destined to reside in /usr/share will be built and installed 188 during a build. If set to ``no'', then all of MKCATPAGES, 189 MKDOC, MKINFO, MKMAN, and MKNLS will be set to ``no'' uncon- 190 ditionally. 191 192 Default: ``yes'' 193 194 TOOLDIR Directory to hold the host tools, once built. This directory 195 should be unique to a given host system and NetBSD source 196 tree. (However, multiple targets may share the same TOOLDIR; 197 the target-dependent files have unique names.) If unset, a 198 default based on the uname(1) information of the host plat- 199 form will be created in the .OBJDIR of src/tools. 200 201 Default: Unset. 202 203 UPDATE If set, then all install operations intended to write to 204 DESTDIR will compare file timestamps before installing, and 205 skip the install phase if the destination files are up-to- 206 date. This also has implications on full builds (see next 207 subsection). 208 209 Default: Unset. 210 211 USETOOLS Indicates whether the tools specified by TOOLDIR should be 212 used as part of a build in progress. Must be set to ``yes'' 213 if cross-compiling. 214 215 yes Use the tools from TOOLDIR. 216 217 no Do not use the tools from TOOLDIR, but refuse to build 218 native compilation tool components that are version- 219 specific for that tool. 220 221 never Do not use the tools from TOOLDIR, even when building 222 native tool components. This is similar to the tradi- 223 tional NetBSD build method, but does not verify that 224 the compilation tools in use are up-to-date enough in 225 order to build the tree successfully. This may cause 226 build or runtime problems when building the whole 227 NetBSD source tree. 228 229 Default: ``yes'' if building all or part of a whole NetBSD 230 source tree (detected automatically); ``no'' otherwise (to 231 preserve traditional semantics of the <bsd.*.mk> make(1) in- 232 clude files). 233 234 "make" variables for full builds 235 These variables only affect the top level ``Makefile'' and do not manual- 236 ly building subtrees of the NetBSD source code. 237 238 MKOBJDIRS Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether object 239 directories will be created automatically (via a ``make 240 obj'' pass) at the start of a build. 241 242 Default: ``yes'' 243 244 MKTOOLS Indicates whether the host tools will be built and in- 245 stalled automatically if they are out-of-date. 246 247 yes Build tools as needed into TOOLDIR, but only if the 248 tools in question are out-of-date. 249 250 no Do not update the tools in TOOLDIR; halt the build 251 as a safety precaution if tools are out-of-date. 252 253 always 254 Always rebuild the tools in TOOLDIR from scratch 255 during a build. This is similar to the standard 256 NetBSD source tree build method, but is not typi- 257 cally required for host tools. 258 259 Default: ``yes'' 260 261 NBUILDJOBS If set, specifies the number of parallel make(1) processes 262 that should be run simultaneously. This can speed up 263 builds on SMP machines, or machines with much more CPU 264 power than I/O availability. This should be used instead 265 of the make(1) option -j, in order to ensure proper order- 266 ing of build components. 267 268 Default: Unset. 269 270 NOCLEANDIR If set, avoids the ``make cleandir'' phase of a full 271 build. This has the effect of allowing only changed files 272 in a source tree to be recompiled. This can speed up 273 builds when updating only a few files in the tree. 274 275 Default: Unset. 276 277 NODISTRIBDIRS If set, avoids the ``make distrib-dirs'' phase of a full 278 build. This skips running mtree(8) on DESTDIR, useful on 279 systems where building as an unprivileged user, or where 280 it is known that the system-wide mtree files have not 281 changed. 282 283 Default: Unset. 284 285 NOINCLUDES If set, avoids the ``make includes'' phase of a full 286 build. This has the effect of preventing make(1) from 287 thinking that some programs are out-of-date simply because 288 the system include files have changed. However, this op- 289 tion should not be used when updating the entire NetBSD 290 source tree arbitrarily; it is suggested to use UPDATE in 291 that case. 292 293 Default: Unset. 294 295 RELEASEDIR If set, specifies the directory to which a release(7) lay- 296 out will be written at the end of a ``make release''. 297 298 Default: Unset. 299 300 UPDATE If set, then in addition to the effects described for UP- 301 DATE above, this implies the effects of NOCLEANDIR. 302 303 BUILDING 304 "make" command line options 305 This is only a summary of options available to make(1); only the options 306 used most frequently with NetBSD builds are listed here. 307 308 -m dir Specify the default directory for searching for system Make- 309 file segments, mainly the <bsd.*.mk> files. When building any 310 full NetBSD source tree, this should be set to the 311 ``share/mk'' directory in the source tree. (This is set auto- 312 matically when building from the top level.) 313 314 -n Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not 315 actually execute them. This will still cause recursion to 316 take place. 317 318 -v var Print make(1)'s idea of the value of var. Does not build any 319 targets. 320 321 var=value Set the variable var to value, overriding any setting speci- 322 fied by the process environment, the MAKECONF configuration 323 file, or the system Makefile segments. 324 325 "make" targets 326 These default targets may be built by running make(1) in any subtree of 327 the NetBSD source code. It is recommended that none of these be used 328 from the top level Makefile; as a specific exception, ``make obj'' and 329 ``make cleandir'' are useful in that context. 330 331 all Build programs, libraries, and preformatted documentation. 332 333 clean Remove program and library object code files. 334 335 cleandir Same as clean, but also remove preformatted documentation, de- 336 pendency files generated by ``make depend'', and any other 337 files known to be created at build time. ``make distclean'' 338 may be used as a synonym, for familiarity with a similar well- 339 known convention. 340 341 depend Create dependency files (.depend) containing more detailed in- 342 formation about the dependencies of source code on header 343 files. Allows programs to be recompiled automatically when a 344 dependency changes. 345 346 dependall Does a ``make depend'' immediately followed by a ``make all''. 347 This combined target recurses as an atomic unit, so that the 348 ``make depend'' phase can participate in make -j parallelism. 349 350 includes Build and install system header files. Typically needed be- 351 fore any system libraries or programs can be built. 352 353 install Install programs, libraries, and documentation into DESTDIR. 354 355 lint Run lint(1) against the C source code, where appropriate, and 356 generate system-installed lint libraries. 357 358 obj Create object directories to be used for built files, instead 359 of building directly in the source tree. 360 361 tags Create ctags(1) searchable function lists usable by the ex(1) 362 and vi(1) text editors. 363 364 "make" targets for the top level 365 Additional make(1) targets are usable specifically from the top source 366 level to facilitate building the entire NetBSD source tree. 367 368 build Build the entire NetBSD system. This orders portions of the 369 source tree such that prerequisites will be built in the prop- 370 er order. 371 372 release Do a ``make build'', then package the system into a standard 373 release layout as described by release(7). This requires that 374 RELEASEDIR be set (see above). 375 376 regression-tests 377 Can only be run after building the regression tests in the di- 378 rectory ``regress''. Runs the compiled regression tests on 379 the local host. 380 381 The "build.sh" script 382 This script file is a Bourne shell script designed to build the entire 383 NetBSD system on any host with a Bourne shell in /bin/sh, including many 384 that are not POSIX compliant. Note that if a host system's /bin/sh is 385 unusually old and broken, the Korn Shell (/bin/ksh), if available, may be 386 a usable alternative. 387 388 All cross-compile builds, and most native builds, of the entire system 389 should make use of build.sh rather than just running ``make''. This way, 390 the make(1) program will be bootstrapped properly, in case the host sys- 391 tem has an older or incompatible ``make'' program. 392 393 When compiling the entire system via build.sh, many make(1) variables are 394 set for you in order to help encapsulate the build process. In the list 395 of options below, variables that are automatically set by build.sh are 396 noted where applicable. 397 398 The following are available command line options that may be supplied to 399 build.sh: 400 401 -a arch Set the value of MACHINE_ARCH to arch. 402 403 -b Bootstrap ``make'' and create a nbmake-MACHINE script (see be- 404 low). 405 406 -j njob Set the value of NBUILDJOBS to njob. This provides similar 407 functionality to the familiar ``make -j'', but preserves the 408 ordering of the top level ``make build''. 409 410 -m mach Set the value of MACHINE to mach. This will also override any 411 value of MACHINE_ARCH in the process environment with a value 412 deduced from mach, unless -a is specified. All cross builds 413 require -m, but if unset on a NetBSD host, the host's value of 414 MACHINE will be detected and used automatically. 415 416 -n Show the commands that would be executed by build.sh, but do 417 not make any changes. This is similar in concept to ``make 418 -n''. 419 420 -o Set the value of MKOBJDIRS to ``no''. 421 422 -r Remove the contents of DESTDIR and TOOLDIR before building 423 (provides a clean starting point). This will skip deleting 424 DESTDIR if building on a native system to the root directory. 425 426 -t Build and install the host tools from src/tools only. This op- 427 tion implies -b. 428 429 -u Set the UPDATE variable. 430 431 -w wrapper 432 Create the nbmake wrapper script (see below) in a custom loca- 433 tion, specified by wrapper. This allows, for instance, to 434 place the wrapper in PATH automatically. Note that wrapper is 435 the full name of the file, not just a directory name. 436 437 -D dest Set the value of DESTDIR to dest. 438 439 -O obj Create an appropriate transform macro for MAKEOBJDIR that will 440 place the built object files under obj. For instance, a set- 441 ting of /usr/obj will place build-time files files under 442 /usr/obj/bin, /usr/obj/lib, and so forth. 443 444 -R rel Set the value of RELEASEDIR to rel. Setting this option will 445 cause build.sh to run ``make release'' instead of ``make 446 build''. 447 448 -T tools Set the value of TOOLDIR to tools. If set, the bootstrap 449 ``make'' will only be rebuilt as needed (when the source files 450 for make(1) change). 451 452 The "nbmake-MACHINE" wrapper script 453 If using the build.sh script to build NetBSD, a nbmake-MACHINE script 454 will be created in TOOLDIR/bin upon the first build to assist in building 455 subtrees on a cross-compile host. 456 457 nbmake-MACHINE can be invoked in lieu of make(1), and will instead call 458 the up-to-date version of ``nbmake'' installed into TOOLDIR/bin with sev- 459 eral key variables pre-set, including MACHINE, MACHINE_ARCH, and TOOLDIR. 460 This script can be symlinked into a directory listed in PATH, or called 461 with an absolute path. 462 463 SEE ALSO 464 make(1), hier(7), release(7) 465 466 HISTORY 467 The USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN based build scheme was introduced in the ``NetBSD- 468 current'' development sources between NetBSD 1.5 and NetBSD 1.6. 469 470 BUGS 471 Many platforms are not yet using the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system. 472 473 NetBSD October 29, 2001 8 474
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