BUILDING revision 1.128
1 BUILDING(8) System Manager's Manual BUILDING(8) 2 3 NAME 4 BUILDING - Procedure for building NetBSD from source code. 5 6 REQUIREMENTS 7 NetBSD is designed to be buildable on most POSIX-compliant host systems. 8 The basic build procedure is the same whether compiling natively (on the 9 same NetBSD architecture) or cross compiling (on another architecture or 10 OS). 11 12 This source tree contains a special subtree, "tools", which uses the host 13 system to create a build toolchain for the target architecture. The host 14 system must have at least C and C++ compilers in order to create the 15 toolchain (make is not required); all other tools are created as part of 16 the NetBSD build process. (See the environment variables section below 17 if you need to override or manually select your compilers.) 18 19 FILES 20 Source tree layout 21 doc/BUILDING.mdoc 22 This document (in -mdoc troff format; the original copy). 23 24 BUILDING This document (in plaintext). 25 26 tools/compat/README 27 Special notes for cross-hosting a NetBSD build on non- 28 NetBSD platforms. 29 30 Makefile The main Makefile for NetBSD; should only be run for 31 native builds with an appropriately up-to-date version of 32 NetBSD make(1). (For building from out-of-date systems or 33 on a non-native host, see the build.sh shell script.) 34 35 UPDATING Special notes for updating from an earlier revision of 36 NetBSD. It is important to read this file before every 37 build of an updated source tree. 38 39 build.sh Bourne-compatible shell script used for building the host 40 build tools and the NetBSD system from scratch. Can be 41 used for both native and cross builds, and should be used 42 instead of make(1) for any source tree that is updated and 43 recompiled regularly. 44 45 crypto/dist/, dist/, gnu/dist/ 46 Sources imported verbatim from third parties, without 47 mangling the existing build structure. Other source trees 48 in bin through usr.sbin use the NetBSD make(1) "reachover" 49 Makefile semantics when building these programs for a 50 native host. 51 52 external, sys/external 53 Sources and build infrastructure for components imported 54 (mostly) unchanged from upstream maintainers, sorted by 55 applicable license. This is (slowly) replacing the 56 crypto/dist, dist, and gnu/dist directories. 57 58 distrib/, etc/ 59 Sources for items used when making a full release 60 snapshot, such as files installed in DESTDIR/etc on the 61 destination system, boot media, and release notes. 62 63 tests/, regress/ 64 Regression test harness. Can be cross-compiled, but only 65 run natively. tests/ uses the atf(7) test framework; 66 regress/ contains older tests that have not yet been 67 migrated to atf(7). 68 69 sys/ NetBSD kernel sources. 70 71 tools/ "Reachover" build structure for the host build tools. 72 This has a special method of determining out-of-date 73 status. 74 75 bin/ ... usr.sbin/ 76 Sources to the NetBSD userland (non-kernel) programs. If 77 any of these directories are missing, they will be skipped 78 during the build. 79 80 external/mit/xorg/ 81 "Reachover" build structure for modular Xorg; the source 82 is in X11SRCDIR. 83 84 extsrc/ "Reachover" build structure for externally added programs 85 and libraries; the source is in EXTSRCSRCDIR. 86 87 Build tree layout 88 The NetBSD build tree is described in hier(7), and the release layout is 89 described in release(7). 90 91 CONFIGURATION 92 Environment variables 93 Several environment variables control the behaviour of NetBSD builds. 94 95 HOST_SH Path name to a shell available on the host system and 96 suitable for use during the build. The NetBSD build 97 system requires a modern Bourne-like shell with POSIX- 98 compliant features, and also requires support for the 99 "local" keyword to declare local variables in shell 100 functions (which is a widely-implemented but non- 101 standardised feature). 102 103 Depending on the host system, a suitable shell may be 104 /bin/sh, /usr/xpg4/bin/sh, /bin/ksh (provided it is a 105 variant of ksh that supports the "local" keyword, such 106 as ksh88, but not ksh93), or /usr/local/bin/bash. 107 108 Most parts of the build require HOST_SH to be an 109 absolute path; however, build.sh allows it to be a 110 simple command name, which will be converted to an 111 absolute path by searching the PATH. 112 113 HOST_CC Path name to C compiler used to create the toolchain. 114 115 HOST_CXX Path name to C++ compiler used to create the toolchain. 116 117 MACHINE Machine type, e.g., "macppc". 118 119 MACHINE_ARCH Machine architecture, e.g., "powerpc". 120 121 MAKE Path name to invoke make(1) as. 122 123 MAKEFLAGS Flags to invoke make(1) with. Note that build.sh 124 ignores the value of MAKEFLAGS passed in the 125 environment, but allows MAKEFLAGS to be set via the -V 126 option. 127 128 MAKEOBJDIR Directory to use as the .OBJDIR for the current 129 directory. The value is subjected to variable 130 expansion by make(1). Typical usage is to set this 131 variable to a value involving the use of 132 `${.CURDIR:S...}' or `${.CURDIR:C...}', to derive the 133 value of .OBJDIR from the value of .CURDIR. Used only 134 if MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is not defined. MAKEOBJDIR can be 135 provided only in the environment or via the -O flag of 136 build.sh; it cannot usefully be set inside a Makefile, 137 including mk.conf or ${MAKECONF}. 138 139 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX Top level directory of the object directory tree. The 140 value is subjected to variable expansion by make(1). 141 build.sh will create the ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX} directory 142 if necessary, but if make(1) is used without build.sh, 143 then rules in <bsd.obj.mk> will abort the build if the 144 ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX} directory does not exist. If the 145 value is defined and valid, then 146 ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}/${.CURDIR} is used as the .OBJDIR 147 for the current directory. The current directory may 148 be read only. MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX can be provided only in 149 the environment or via the -M flag of build.sh; it 150 cannot usefully be set inside a Makefile, including 151 mk.conf or ${MAKECONF}. 152 153 "make" variables 154 Several variables control the behavior of NetBSD builds. Unless 155 otherwise specified, these variables may be set in either the process 156 environment or the make(1) configuration file specified by MAKECONF. 157 158 BUILDID Identifier for the build. If set, this should be a short 159 string that is suitable for use as part of a file or 160 directory name. The identifier will be appended to object 161 directory names, and can be consulted in the make(1) 162 configuration file in order to set additional build 163 parameters, such as compiler flags. It will also be used as 164 part of the kernel version string, which can be printed by 165 "uname -v". 166 167 Default: Unset. 168 169 BUILDINFO This may be a multi-line string containing information about 170 the build. This will appear in DESTDIR/etc/release, and it 171 will be stored in the buildinfo variable in any kernels that 172 are built. When such kernels are booted, the sysctl(7) 173 kern.buildinfo variable will report this value. The string 174 may contain backslash escape sequences, such as "\\" 175 (representing a backslash character) and "\n" (representing a 176 newline). 177 178 Default: Unset. 179 180 BUILDSEED GCC uses random numbers when compiling C++ code. This 181 variable seeds the gcc random number generator using the 182 -frandom-seed flag with this value. By default, it is set to 183 NetBSD-(majorversion). Using a fixed value causes C++ 184 binaries to be the same when built from the same sources, 185 resulting in identical (reproducible) builds. Additional 186 information is available in the GCC documentation of 187 -frandom-seed. 188 189 DESTDIR Directory to contain the built NetBSD system. If set, 190 special options are passed to the compilation tools to 191 prevent their default use of the host system's /usr/include, 192 /usr/lib, and so forth. This pathname must be an absolute 193 path, and should not end with a slash (/) character. (For 194 installation into the system's root directory, set DESTDIR to 195 an empty string, not to "/"). The directory must reside on a 196 file system which supports long file names and hard links. 197 198 Default: Empty string if USETOOLS is "yes"; unset otherwise. 199 200 Note: build.sh will provide a default of destdir.MACHINE (in 201 the top-level .OBJDIR) unless run in `expert' mode. 202 203 EXTSRCSRCDIR 204 Directory containing sources of externally added programs and 205 libraries. If specified, must be an absolute path. 206 207 Default: NETBSDRCDIR/../extsrc, if that exists; otherwise 208 /usr/extsrc. 209 210 MAKECONF The name of the make(1) configuration file. Only settable in 211 the process environment. 212 213 Default: "/etc/mk.conf" 214 215 MAKEVERBOSE 216 Level of verbosity of status messages. Supported values: 217 218 0 No descriptive messages or commands executed by make(1) 219 are shown. 220 221 1 Brief messages are shown describing what is being done, 222 but the actual commands executed by make(1) are not 223 displayed. 224 225 2 Descriptive messages are shown as above (prefixed with a 226 `#'), and ordinary commands performed by make(1) are 227 displayed. 228 229 3 In addition to the above, all commands performed by 230 make(1) are displayed, even if they would ordinarily 231 have been hidden through use of the "@" prefix in the 232 relevant makefile. 233 234 4 In addition to the above, commands executed by make(1) 235 are traced through use of the sh(1) "-x" flag. 236 237 Default: 2 238 239 MKCATPAGES Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether preformatted 240 plaintext manual pages will be created during a build. 241 242 Default: "no" 243 244 MKCROSSGDB Can be set to "yes" or "no". Create a cross-gdb as a host 245 tool. 246 247 Default: "no" 248 249 MKDEBUG Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether debug 250 information should be generated for all userland binaries 251 compiled. The result is collected as an additional debug.tgz 252 and xdebug.tgz set and installed in /usr/libdata/debug. 253 254 Default: "no" 255 256 MKDEBUGLIB Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether debug 257 information (see MKDEBUG) should also be generated for all 258 libraries build. 259 260 Default: "no" 261 262 MKDOC Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether system 263 documentation destined for DESTDIR/usr/share/doc will be 264 installed during a build. 265 266 Default: "yes" 267 268 MKEXTSRC Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether extsrc is 269 built from EXTSRCSRCDIR. 270 271 Default: "no" 272 273 MKHTML Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether preformatted 274 HTML manual pages will be built and installed 275 276 Default: "yes" 277 278 MKHOSTOBJ Can be set to "yes" or "no". If set to "yes", then for 279 programs intended to be run on the compile host, the name, 280 release, and architecture of the host operating system will 281 be suffixed to the name of the object directory created by 282 "make obj". (This allows multiple host systems to compile 283 NetBSD for a single target.) If set to "no", then programs 284 built to be run on the compile host will use the same object 285 directory names as programs built to be run on the target. 286 287 Default: "no" 288 289 MKINFO Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether GNU Info 290 files, used for the documentation for most of the compilation 291 tools, will be created and installed during a build. 292 293 Default: "yes" 294 295 MKKDEBUG Can be set to "yes" or "no". Force generation of full-debug 296 symbol versions of all kernels compiled. Alongside of the 297 netbsd kernel file, an unstripped version netbsd.gdb is 298 created. This is useful if a cross-gdb is built as well (see 299 MKCROSSGDB). 300 301 Default: "no" 302 303 MKKMOD Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether kernel 304 modules are built and installed. 305 306 Default: "yes" 307 308 MKLINT Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether lint(1) will 309 be run against portions of the NetBSD source code during the 310 build, and whether lint libraries will be installed into 311 DESTDIR/usr/libdata/lint. 312 313 Default: "yes" 314 315 MKMAN Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether manual pages 316 will be installed during a build. 317 318 Default: "yes" 319 320 MKNLS Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether Native 321 Language System locale zone files will be compiled and 322 installed during a build. 323 324 Default: "yes" 325 326 MKOBJ Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether object 327 directories will be created when running "make obj". If set 328 to "no", then all built files will be located inside the 329 regular source tree. 330 331 Default: "yes" 332 333 Note that setting MKOBJ to "no" is not recommended and may 334 cause problems when updating the tree with cvs(1). 335 336 MKPIC Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether shared 337 objects and libraries will be created and installed during a 338 build. If set to "no", the entire built system will be 339 statically linked. 340 341 Default: Platform dependent. As of this writing, all 342 platforms except sh3 default to "yes". 343 344 MKPICINSTALL 345 Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether the ar(1) 346 format libraries (lib*_pic.a), used to generate shared 347 libraries, are installed during a build. 348 349 Default: "yes" 350 351 MKPROFILE Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether profiled 352 libraries (lib*_p.a) will be built and installed during a 353 build. 354 355 Default: "yes"; however, some platforms turn off MKPROFILE by 356 default at times due to toolchain problems with profiled 357 code. 358 359 MKREPRO Can be set to "yes" or "no". Create reproducible builds. 360 This enables different switches to make two builds from the 361 same source tree result in the same build results. 362 363 Default: "no" This may be set to "yes" by giving build.sh the 364 -P option. 365 366 MKREPRO_TIMESTAMP 367 Unix timestamp. When MKREPRO is set, the timestamp of all 368 files in the sets will be set to this value. 369 370 Default: Unset. This may be set automatically to the latest 371 source tree timestamp using cvslatest(1) by giving build.sh 372 the -P option. 373 374 MKSHARE Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether files 375 destined to reside in DESTDIR/usr/share will be built and 376 installed during a build. If set to "no", then all of 377 MKCATPAGES, MKDOC, MKINFO, MKMAN, and MKNLS will be set to 378 "no" unconditionally. 379 380 Default: "yes" 381 382 MKSTRIPIDENT 383 Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether RCS IDs, for 384 use with ident(1), should be stripped from program binaries 385 and shared libraries. 386 387 Default: "no" 388 389 MKSTRIPSYM Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether all local 390 symbols should be stripped from shared libraries. If "yes", 391 strip all local symbols from shared libraries; the affect is 392 equivalent to the -x option of ld(1). If "no", strip only 393 temporary local symbols; the affect is equivalent to the -X 394 option of ld(1). Keeping non-temporary local symbols such as 395 static function names is useful on using DTrace for userland 396 libraries and getting a backtrace from a rump kernel loading 397 shared libraries. 398 399 Default: "yes" 400 401 MKUNPRIVED Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether an 402 unprivileged install will occur. The user, group, 403 permissions, and file flags, will not be set on the installed 404 items; instead the information will be appended to a file 405 called METALOG in DESTDIR. The contents of METALOG are used 406 during the generation of the distribution tar files to ensure 407 that the appropriate file ownership is stored. 408 409 Default: "no" 410 411 MKUPDATE Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether all install 412 operations intended to write to DESTDIR will compare file 413 timestamps before installing, and skip the install phase if 414 the destination files are up-to-date. This also has 415 implications on full builds (see next subsection). 416 417 Default: "no" 418 419 MKX11 Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether X11 is built 420 from X11SRCDIR. 421 422 Default: "no" 423 424 TOOLDIR Directory to hold the host tools, once built. If specified, 425 must be an absolute path. This directory should be unique to 426 a given host system and NetBSD source tree. (However, 427 multiple targets may share the same TOOLDIR; the target- 428 dependent files have unique names.) If unset, a default 429 based on the uname(1) information of the host platform will 430 be created in the .OBJDIR of src. 431 432 Default: Unset. 433 434 USETOOLS Indicates whether the tools specified by TOOLDIR should be 435 used as part of a build in progress. Must be set to "yes" if 436 cross-compiling. 437 438 yes Use the tools from TOOLDIR. 439 440 no Do not use the tools from TOOLDIR, but refuse to build 441 native compilation tool components that are version- 442 specific for that tool. 443 444 never Do not use the tools from TOOLDIR, even when building 445 native tool components. This is similar to the 446 traditional NetBSD build method, but does not verify 447 that the compilation tools in use are up-to-date 448 enough in order to build the tree successfully. This 449 may cause build or runtime problems when building the 450 whole NetBSD source tree. 451 452 Default: "yes", unless TOOLCHAIN_MISSING is set to "yes". 453 454 USETOOLS is also set to "no" when using <bsd.*.mk> outside 455 the NetBSD source tree. 456 457 X11SRCDIR Directory containing the modular Xorg source. If specified, 458 must be an absolute path. The main modular Xorg source is 459 found in X11SRCDIR/external/mit. 460 461 Default: NETBSDRCDIR/../xsrc, if that exists; otherwise 462 /usr/xsrc. 463 464 "make" variables for full builds 465 These variables only affect the top level "Makefile" and do not affect 466 manually building subtrees of the NetBSD source code. 467 468 INSTALLWORLDDIR Location for the "make installworld" target to install 469 to. If specified, must be an absolute path. 470 471 Default: "/" 472 473 MKOBJDIRS Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether object 474 directories will be created automatically (via a "make 475 obj" pass) at the start of a build. 476 477 Default: "no" 478 479 If using build.sh, the default is "yes". This may be 480 set back to "no" by giving build.sh the -o option. 481 482 MKUPDATE Can be set to "yes" or "no". If set, then in addition 483 to the effects described for MKUPDATE=yes above, this 484 implies the effects of NOCLEANDIR (i.e., "make cleandir" 485 is avoided). 486 487 Default: "no" 488 489 If using build.sh, this may be set by giving the -u 490 option. 491 492 NBUILDJOBS Now obsolete. Use the make(1) option -j, instead. See 493 below. 494 495 Default: Unset. 496 497 NOCLEANDIR If set, avoids the "make cleandir" phase of a full 498 build. This has the effect of allowing only changed 499 files in a source tree to be recompiled. This can speed 500 up builds when updating only a few files in the tree. 501 502 Default: Unset. 503 504 See also MKUPDATE. 505 506 NODISTRIBDIRS If set, avoids the "make distrib-dirs" phase of a full 507 build. This skips running mtree(8) on DESTDIR, useful 508 on systems where building as an unprivileged user, or 509 where it is known that the system-wide mtree files have 510 not changed. 511 512 Default: Unset. 513 514 NOINCLUDES If set, avoids the "make includes" phase of a full 515 build. This has the effect of preventing make(1) from 516 thinking that some programs are out-of-date simply 517 because the system include files have changed. However, 518 this option should not be used when updating the entire 519 NetBSD source tree arbitrarily; it is suggested to use 520 MKUPDATE=yes instead in that case. 521 522 Default: Unset. 523 524 RELEASEDIR If set, specifies the directory to which a release(7) 525 layout will be written at the end of a "make release". 526 If specified, must be an absolute path. 527 528 Default: Unset. 529 530 Note: build.sh will provide a default of releasedir (in 531 the top-level .OBJDIR) unless run in `expert' mode. 532 533 BUILDING 534 "make" command line options 535 This is not a summary of all the options available to make(1); only the 536 options used most frequently with NetBSD builds are listed here. 537 538 -j njob Run up to njob make(1) subjobs in parallel. Makefiles should 539 use .WAIT or have explicit dependencies as necessary to 540 enforce build ordering. 541 542 -m dir Specify the default directory for searching for system 543 Makefile segments, mainly the <bsd.*.mk> files. When building 544 any full NetBSD source tree, this should be set to the 545 "share/mk" directory in the source tree. This is set 546 automatically when building from the top level, or when using 547 build.sh. 548 549 -n Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not 550 actually execute them. This will still cause recursion to 551 take place. 552 553 -V var Print make(1)'s idea of the value of var. Does not build any 554 targets. 555 556 var=value Set the variable var to value, overriding any setting 557 specified by the process environment, the MAKECONF 558 configuration file, or the system Makefile segments. 559 560 "make" targets 561 These default targets may be built by running make(1) in any subtree of 562 the NetBSD source code. It is recommended that none of these be used 563 from the top level Makefile; as a specific exception, "make obj" and 564 "make cleandir" are useful in that context. 565 566 all Build programs, libraries, and preformatted documentation. 567 568 clean Remove program and library object code files. 569 570 cleandir Same as clean, but also remove preformatted documentation, 571 dependency files generated by "make depend", and any other 572 files known to be created at build time. 573 574 depend Create dependency files (.depend) containing more detailed 575 information about the dependencies of source code on header 576 files. Allows programs to be recompiled automatically when a 577 dependency changes. 578 579 dependall Does a "make depend" immediately followed by a "make all". 580 This improves cache locality of the build since both passes 581 read the source files in their entirety. 582 583 distclean Synonym for cleandir. 584 585 includes Build and install system header files. Typically needed 586 before any system libraries or programs can be built. 587 588 install Install programs, libraries, and documentation into DESTDIR. 589 Few files will be installed to DESTDIR/dev, DESTDIR/etc, 590 DESTDIR/root or DESTDIR/var in order to prevent user supplied 591 configuration data from being overwritten. 592 593 lint Run lint(1) against the C source code, where appropriate, and 594 generate system-installed lint libraries. 595 596 obj Create object directories to be used for built files, instead 597 of building directly in the source tree. 598 599 tags Create ctags(1) searchable function lists usable by the ex(1) 600 and vi(1) text editors. 601 602 "make" targets for the top level 603 Additional make(1) targets are usable specifically from the top source 604 level to facilitate building the entire NetBSD source tree. 605 606 build Build the entire NetBSD system (except the kernel). This 607 orders portions of the source tree such that prerequisites 608 will be built in the proper order. 609 610 distribution Do a "make build", and then install a full distribution 611 (which does not include a kernel) into DESTDIR, including 612 files in DESTDIR/dev, DESTDIR/etc, DESTDIR/root and 613 DESTDIR/var. 614 615 buildworld As per "make distribution", except that it ensures that 616 DESTDIR is not the root directory. 617 618 installworld Install the distribution from DESTDIR to INSTALLWORLDDIR, 619 which defaults to the root directory. Ensures that 620 INSTALLWORLDDIR is not the root directory if cross 621 compiling. 622 623 The INSTALLSETS environment variable may be set to a space- 624 separated list of distribution sets to be installed. By 625 default, all sets except "etc" and "xetc" are installed, so 626 most files in INSTALLWORLDDIR/etc will not be installed or 627 modified. 628 629 Note: Before performing this operation with 630 INSTALLWORLDDIR=/, it is highly recommended that you 631 upgrade your kernel and reboot. After performing this 632 operation, it is recommended that you use etcupdate(8) to 633 update files in INSTALLWORLDDIR/etc, and postinstall(8) to 634 check for or fix inconsistencies. 635 636 sets Create distribution sets from DESTDIR into 637 RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/binary/sets. Should be run 638 after "make distribution", as "make build" alone does not 639 install all of the required files. 640 641 sourcesets Create source sets of the source tree into 642 RELEASEDIR/source/sets. 643 644 syspkgs Create syspkgs from DESTDIR into 645 RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/binary/syspkgs. Should be run 646 after "make distribution", as "make build" alone does not 647 install all of the required files. 648 649 release Do a "make distribution", build kernels, distribution 650 media, and install sets (this as per "make sets"), and then 651 package the system into a standard release layout as 652 described by release(7). This requires that RELEASEDIR be 653 set (see above). 654 655 iso-image Create a NetBSD installation CD-ROM image in the 656 RELEASEDIR/images directory. The CD-ROM file system will 657 have a layout as described in release(7). 658 659 For most machine types, the CD-ROM will be bootable, and 660 will automatically run the sysinst(8) menu-based 661 installation program, which can be used to install or 662 upgrade a NetBSD system. Bootable CD-ROMs also contain 663 tools that may be useful in repairing a damaged NetBSD 664 installation. 665 666 Before "make iso-image" is attempted, RELEASEDIR must be 667 populated by "make release" or equivalent. 668 669 Note that other, smaller, CD-ROM images may be created in 670 the RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/installation/cdrom 671 directory by "make release". These smaller images usually 672 contain the same tools as the larger images in 673 RELEASEDIR/images, but do not contain additional content 674 such as the distribution sets. 675 676 Note that the mac68k port still uses an older method of 677 creating CD-ROM images. This requires the mkisofs(1) 678 utility, which is not part of NetBSD, but which can be 679 installed from pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrtools. 680 681 iso-image-source 682 Create a NetBSD installation CD-ROM image in the 683 RELEASEDIR/images directory. The CD-ROM file system will 684 have a layout as described in release(7). It will have top 685 level directories for the machine type and source. 686 687 For most machine types, the CD-ROM will be bootable, and 688 will automatically run the sysinst(8) menu-based 689 installation program, which can be used to install or 690 upgrade a NetBSD system. Bootable CD-ROMs also contain 691 tools that may be useful in repairing a damaged NetBSD 692 installation. 693 694 Before "make iso-image-source" is attempted, RELEASEDIR 695 must be populated by "make sourcesets release" or 696 equivalent. 697 698 Note that other, smaller, CD-ROM images may be created in 699 the RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/installation/cdrom 700 directory by "make release". These smaller images usually 701 contain the same tools as the larger images in 702 RELEASEDIR/images, but do not contain additional content 703 such as the distribution sets. 704 705 Note that the mac68k port still uses an older method of 706 creating CD-ROM images. This requires the mkisofs(1) 707 utility, which is not part of NetBSD, but which can be 708 installed from pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrtools. 709 710 install-image 711 Create a bootable NetBSD installation disk image in the 712 RELEASEDIR/images directory. The installation disk image 713 is suitable for copying to bootable USB flash memory 714 sticks, etc., for machines which are able to boot from such 715 devices. The file system in the bootable disk image will 716 have a layout as described in release(7). 717 718 The installation image is bootable, and will automatically 719 run the sysinst(8) menu-based installation program, which 720 can be used to install or upgrade a NetBSD system. The 721 image also contains tools that may be useful in repairing a 722 damaged NetBSD installation. 723 724 Before "make install-image" is attempted, RELEASEDIR must 725 be populated by "make release" or equivalent. The build 726 must have been performed with MKUNPRIVED=yes because "make 727 install-image" relies on information in DESTDIR/METALOG. 728 729 live-image Create NetBSD live images in the RELEASEDIR/images 730 directory. The live image contains all necessary files to 731 boot NetBSD up to multi-user mode, including all files 732 which should be extracted during installation, NetBSD 733 disklabel, bootloaders, etc. 734 735 The live image is suitable for use as a disk image in 736 virtual machine environments such as QEMU, and also useful 737 to boot NetBSD from a USB flash memory stick on a real 738 machine, without the need for installation. 739 740 Before "make live-image" is attempted, RELEASEDIR must be 741 populated by "make release" or equivalent. The build must 742 have been performed with MKUNPRIVED=yes because "make 743 install-image" relies on information in DESTDIR/METALOG. 744 745 regression-tests 746 Can only be run after building the regression tests in the 747 directory "regress". Runs those compiled regression tests 748 on the local host. Note that most tests are now managed 749 instead using atf(7); this target should probably run those 750 as well but currently does not. 751 752 The "build.sh" script 753 This script file is a shell script designed to build the entire NetBSD 754 system on any host with a suitable modern shell and some common 755 utilities. The required shell features are described under the HOST_SH 756 variable. 757 758 If a host system's default shell does support the required features, then 759 we suggest that you explicitly specify a suitable shell using a command 760 like 761 762 /path/to/suitable/shell build.sh [options] 763 764 The above command will usually enable build.sh to automatically set 765 HOST_SH=/path/to/suitable/shell, but if that fails, then the following 766 set of commands may be used instead: 767 768 HOST_SH=/path/to/suitable/shell 769 export HOST_SH 770 ${HOST_SH} build.sh [options] 771 772 If build.sh detects that it is being executed under an unsuitable shell, 773 it attempts to exec a suitable shell instead, or prints an error message. 774 If HOST_SH is not set explicitly, then build.sh sets a default using 775 heuristics dependent on the host platform, or from the shell under which 776 build.sh is executed (if that can be determined), or using the first copy 777 of sh found in PATH. 778 779 All cross-compile builds, and most native builds, of the entire system 780 should make use of build.sh rather than just running "make". This way, 781 the make(1) program will be bootstrapped properly, in case the host 782 system has an older or incompatible "make" program. 783 784 When compiling the entire system via build.sh, many make(1) variables are 785 set for you in order to help encapsulate the build process. In the list 786 of options below, variables that are automatically set by build.sh are 787 noted where applicable. 788 789 The following operations are supported by build.sh: 790 791 build Build the system as per "make build". Before the main part 792 of the build commences, this command runs the obj operation 793 (unless the -o option is given), "make cleandir" (unless 794 the -u option is given), and the tools operation. 795 796 distribution Build a full distribution as per "make distribution". This 797 command first runs the build operation. 798 799 release Build a full release as per "make release". This command 800 first runs the distribution operation. 801 802 makewrapper Create the nbmake-MACHINE wrapper. This operation is 803 automatically performed for any of the other operations. 804 805 cleandir Perform "make cleandir". 806 807 obj Perform "make obj". 808 809 tools Build and install the host tools from src/tools. This 810 command will first run "make obj" and "make cleandir" in 811 the tools subdirectory unless the -o or -u options 812 (respectively) are given. 813 814 install=idir Install the contents of DESTDIR to idir, using "make 815 installworld". Note that files that are part of the "etc" 816 or "xetc" sets will not be installed, unless overridden by 817 the INSTALLSETS environment variable. 818 819 kernel=kconf Build a new kernel. The kconf argument is the name of a 820 configuration file suitable for use by config(1). If kconf 821 does not contain any `/' characters, the configuration file 822 is expected to be found in the KERNCONFDIR directory, which 823 is typically sys/arch/MACHINE/conf. The new kernel will be 824 built in a subdirectory of KERNOBJDIR, which is typically 825 sys/arch/MACHINE/compile or an associated object directory. 826 827 This command does not imply the tools command; run the 828 tools command first unless it is certain that the tools 829 already exist and are up to date. 830 831 This command will run "make cleandir" on the kernel in 832 question first unless the -u option is given. 833 834 kernel.gdb=kconf 835 Build a new kernel with debug information. Similar to the 836 above kernel=kconf operation, but creates a netbsd.gdb file 837 alongside of the kernel netbsd, which contains a full 838 symbol table and can be used for debugging (for example 839 with a cross-gdb built by MKCROSSGDB). 840 841 kernels This command will build all kernels defined in port 842 specific release build procedure. 843 844 This command internally calls the kernel=kconf operation 845 for each found kernel configuration file. 846 847 modules This command will build kernel modules and install them 848 into DESTDIR. 849 850 releasekernel=kconf 851 Install a gzip(1)ed copy of the kernel previously built by 852 kernel=kconf into 853 RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/binary/kernel, usually as 854 netbsd-kconf.gz, although the "netbsd" prefix is determined 855 from the "config" directives in kconf. 856 857 sets Perform "make sets". 858 859 sourcesets Perform "make sourcesets". 860 861 syspkgs Perform "make syspkgs". 862 863 iso-image Perform "make iso-image". 864 865 iso-image-source 866 Perform "make iso-image-source". 867 868 install-image 869 Perform "make install-image". 870 871 live-image Perform "make live-image". 872 873 list-arch Prints a list of valid MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH settings, 874 the default MACHINE_ARCH for each MACHINE, and aliases for 875 MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH pairs, and then exits. The -m or -a 876 options (or both) may be used to specify glob patterns that 877 will be used to narrow the list of results; for example, 878 "build.sh -m 'evm*' -a '*arm*' list-arch" will list all 879 known MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH values in which either MACHINE 880 or ALIAS matches the pattern `evb*', and MACHINE_ARCH 881 matches the pattern `*arm*'. 882 883 The following command line options alter the behaviour of the build.sh 884 operations described above: 885 886 -a arch Set the value of MACHINE_ARCH to arch. See the -m option for 887 more information. 888 889 -B buildid 890 Set the value of BUILDID to buildid. This will also append the 891 build identifier to the name of the "make" wrapper script so 892 that the resulting name is of the form 893 "nbmake-MACHINE-BUILDID". 894 895 -C cdextras 896 Append cdextras to the CDEXTRA variable, which is a space- 897 separated list of files or directories that will be added to 898 the CD-ROM image that may be create by the "iso-image" or 899 "iso-image-source" operations. Files will be added to the root 900 of the CD-ROM image, whereas directories will be copied 901 recursively. If relative paths are specified, they will be 902 converted to absolute paths before being used. Multiple paths 903 may be specified via multiple -C options, or via a single 904 option whose argument contains multiple space-separated paths. 905 906 -D dest Set the value of DESTDIR to dest. If a relative path is 907 specified, it will be converted to an absolute path before 908 being used. 909 910 -E Set `expert' mode. This overrides various sanity checks, and 911 allows: DESTDIR does not have to be set to a non-root path for 912 builds, and MKUNPRIVED=yes does not have to be set when 913 building as a non-root user. 914 915 Note: It is highly recommended that you know what you are doing 916 when you use this option. 917 918 -h Print a help message. 919 920 -j njob Run up to njob make(1) subjobs in parallel; passed through to 921 make(1). If you see failures for reasons other than running 922 out of memory while using build.sh with -j, please save 923 complete build logs so the failures can be analyzed. 924 925 To achieve the fastest builds, -j values between (1 + the 926 number of CPUs) and (2 * the number of CPUs) are recommended. 927 Use lower values on machines with limited memory or I/O 928 bandwidth. 929 930 -M obj Set MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX to obj. Unsets MAKEOBJDIR. See "-O obj" 931 for more information. 932 933 For instance, if the source directory is /usr/src, a setting of 934 "-M /usr/obj" will place build-time files under 935 /usr/obj/usr/src/bin, /usr/obj/usr/src/lib, 936 /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin, and so forth. 937 938 If a relative path is specified, it will be converted to an 939 absolute path before being used. build.sh imposes the 940 restriction that the argument to the -M option must not begin 941 with a "$" (dollar sign) character; otherwise it would be too 942 difficult to determine whether the value is an absolute or a 943 relative path. If the directory does not already exist, 944 build.sh will create it. 945 946 -m mach Set the value of MACHINE to mach, unless the mach argument is 947 an alias that refers to a MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH pair, in which 948 case both MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH are set from the alias. 949 Such aliases are interpreted entirely by build.sh; they are not 950 used by any other part of the build system. The MACHINE_ARCH 951 setting implied by mach will override any value of MACHINE_ARCH 952 in the process environment, but will not override a value set 953 by the -a option. All cross builds require -m, but if unset on 954 a NetBSD host, the host's value of MACHINE will be detected and 955 used automatically. 956 957 See the list-arch operation for a way to get a list of valid 958 MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH settings. 959 960 -N noiselevel 961 Set the "noisyness" level of the build, by setting MAKEVERBOSE 962 to noiselevel. 963 964 -n Show the commands that would be executed by build.sh, but do 965 not make any changes. This is similar in concept to "make -n". 966 967 -O obj Create an appropriate transform macro for MAKEOBJDIR that will 968 place the built object files under obj. Unsets 969 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX. 970 971 For instance, a setting of "-O /usr/obj" will place build-time 972 files under /usr/obj/bin, /usr/obj/lib, /usr/obj/usr.bin, and 973 so forth. 974 975 If a relative path is specified, it will be converted to an 976 absolute path before being used. build.sh imposes the 977 restriction that the argument to the -O option must not contain 978 a "$" (dollar sign) character. If the directory does not 979 already exist, build.sh will create it. 980 981 In normal use, exactly one of the -M or -O options should be 982 specified. If neither -M nor -O is specified, then a default 983 object directory will be chosen according to rules in 984 <bsd.obj.mk>. Relying on this default is not recommended 985 because it is determined by complex rules that are influenced 986 by the values of several variables and by the location of the 987 source directory. 988 989 Note that placing the obj directory location outside of the 990 default source tree hierarchy makes it easier to manually clear 991 out old files in the event the "make cleandir" operation is 992 unable to do so. (See CAVEATS below.) 993 994 Note also that use of one of -M or -O is the only means of 995 building multiple machine architecture userlands from the same 996 source tree without cleaning between builds (in which case, one 997 would specify distinct obj locations for each). 998 999 -o Set the value of MKOBJDIRS to "no". Otherwise, it will be 1000 automatically set to "yes". This default is opposite to the 1001 behaviour when not using build.sh. 1002 1003 -R rel Set the value of RELEASEDIR to rel. If a relative path is 1004 specified, it will be converted to an absolute path before 1005 being used. 1006 1007 -r Remove the contents of DESTDIR and TOOLDIR before building 1008 (provides a clean starting point). This will skip deleting 1009 DESTDIR if building on a native system to the root directory. 1010 1011 -S seed Change the value of BUILDSEED to seed. This should rarely be 1012 necessary. 1013 1014 -T tools Set the value of TOOLDIR to tools. If a relative path is 1015 specified, it will be converted to an absolute path before 1016 being used. If set, the bootstrap "make" will only be rebuilt 1017 if the source files for make(1) have changed. 1018 1019 -U Set MKUNPRIVED=yes. 1020 1021 -u Set MKUPDATE=yes. 1022 1023 -V var=[value] 1024 Set the environment variable var to an optional value. This is 1025 propagated to the nbmake wrapper. 1026 1027 -w wrapper 1028 Create the nbmake wrapper script (see below) in a custom 1029 location, specified by wrapper. This allows, for instance, to 1030 place the wrapper in PATH automatically. Note that wrapper is 1031 the full name of the file, not just a directory name. If a 1032 relative path is specified, it will be converted to an absolute 1033 path before being used. 1034 1035 -X x11src 1036 Set the value of X11SRCDIR to x11src. If a relative path is 1037 specified, it will be converted to an absolute path before 1038 being used. 1039 1040 -x Set MKX11=yes. 1041 1042 -Y extsrcdir 1043 Set the value of EXTSRCSRCDIR to extsrcdir. If a relative path 1044 is specified, it will be converted to an absolute path before 1045 being used. 1046 1047 -y Set MKEXTSRC=yes. 1048 1049 -Z var Unset ("zap") the environment variable var. This is propagated 1050 to the nbmake wrapper. 1051 1052 The "nbmake-MACHINE" wrapper script 1053 If using the build.sh script to build NetBSD, a nbmake-MACHINE script 1054 will be created in TOOLDIR/bin upon the first build to assist in building 1055 subtrees on a cross-compile host. 1056 1057 nbmake-MACHINE can be invoked in lieu of make(1), and will instead call 1058 the up-to-date version of "nbmake" installed into TOOLDIR/bin with 1059 several key variables pre-set, including MACHINE, MACHINE_ARCH, and 1060 TOOLDIR. nbmake-MACHINE will also set variables specified with -V, and 1061 unset variables specified with -Z. 1062 1063 This script can be symlinked into a directory listed in PATH, or called 1064 with an absolute path. 1065 1066 EXAMPLES 1067 1. % ./build.sh [options] tools kernel=GENERIC 1068 1069 Build a new toolchain, and use the new toolchain to configure and 1070 build a new GENERIC kernel. 1071 1072 2. % ./build.sh [options] -U distribution 1073 1074 Using unprivileged mode, build a complete distribution to a DESTDIR 1075 directory that build.sh selects (and will display). 1076 1077 3. # ./build.sh [options] -U install=/ 1078 1079 As root, install to / the distribution that was built by example 2. 1080 Even though this is run as root, -U is required so that the 1081 permissions stored in DESTDIR/METALOG are correctly applied to the 1082 files as they're copied to /. 1083 1084 4. % ./build.sh [options] -U -u release 1085 1086 Using unprivileged mode, build a complete release to DESTDIR and 1087 RELEASEDIR directories that build.sh selects (and will display). 1088 MKUPDATE=yes (-u) is set to prevent the "make cleandir", so that if 1089 this is run after example 2, it doesn't need to redo that portion of 1090 the release build. 1091 1092 OBSOLETE VARIABLES 1093 NBUILDJOBS Use the make(1) option -j instead. 1094 1095 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN 1096 The new toolchain is now the default. To disable, use 1097 TOOLCHAIN_MISSING=yes. 1098 1099 SEE ALSO 1100 make(1), hier(7), release(7), etcupdate(8), postinstall(8), sysinst(8), 1101 pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrtools 1102 1103 HISTORY 1104 The build.sh based build scheme was introduced for NetBSD 1.6 as 1105 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN, and re-worked to TOOLCHAIN_MISSING after that. 1106 1107 CAVEATS 1108 After significant updates to third-party components in the source tree, 1109 the "make cleandir" operation may be insufficient to clean out old files 1110 in object directories. Instead, one may have to manually remove the 1111 files. Consult the UPDATING file for notices concerning this. 1112 1113 NetBSD April 13, 2017 NetBSD 1114
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