BUILDING revision 1.150
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). Intended for expert use with knowledge of 33 its shortcomings, it has been superseded by the build.sh 34 shell script as the recommended means for building NetBSD. 35 36 UPDATING Special notes for updating from an earlier revision of 37 NetBSD. It is important to read this file before every 38 build of an updated source tree. 39 40 build.sh Bourne-compatible shell script used for building the host 41 build tools and the NetBSD system from scratch. Can be 42 used for both native and cross builds, and should be used 43 instead of make(1) as it performs additional checks to 44 prevent common issues going undetected, such as building 45 with an outdated version of make(1). 46 47 crypto/dist/, dist/, gnu/dist/ 48 Sources imported verbatim from third parties, without 49 mangling the existing build structure. Other source trees 50 in bin through usr.sbin use the NetBSD make(1) "reachover" 51 Makefile semantics when building these programs for a 52 native host. 53 54 external, sys/external 55 Sources and build infrastructure for components imported 56 (mostly) unchanged from upstream maintainers, sorted by 57 applicable license. This is (slowly) replacing the 58 crypto/dist, dist, and gnu/dist directories. 59 60 distrib/, etc/ 61 Sources for items used when making a full release 62 snapshot, such as files installed in DESTDIR/etc on the 63 destination system, boot media, and release notes. 64 65 tests/, regress/ 66 Regression test harness. Can be cross-compiled, but only 67 run natively. tests/ uses the atf(7) test framework; 68 regress/ contains older tests that have not yet been 69 migrated to atf(7). 70 71 sys/ NetBSD kernel sources. 72 73 tools/ "Reachover" build structure for the host build tools. 74 This has a special method of determining out-of-date 75 status. 76 77 bin/ ... usr.sbin/ 78 Sources to the NetBSD userland (non-kernel) programs. If 79 any of these directories are missing, they will be skipped 80 during the build. 81 82 external/mit/xorg/ 83 "Reachover" build structure for modular Xorg; the source 84 is in X11SRCDIR. 85 86 Build tree layout 87 The NetBSD build tree is described in hier(7), and the release layout is 88 described in release(7). 89 90 CONFIGURATION 91 Environment variables 92 Several environment variables control the behaviour of NetBSD builds. 93 94 HOST_SH Path name to a shell available on the host system and 95 suitable for use during the build. The NetBSD build 96 system requires a modern Bourne-like shell with POSIX- 97 compliant features, and also requires support for the 98 "local" keyword to declare local variables in shell 99 functions (which is a widely-implemented but non- 100 standardised feature). 101 102 Depending on the host system, a suitable shell may be 103 /bin/sh, /usr/xpg4/bin/sh, /bin/ksh (provided it is a 104 variant of ksh that supports the "local" keyword, such 105 as ksh88, but not ksh93), or /usr/local/bin/bash. 106 107 Most parts of the build require HOST_SH to be an 108 absolute path; however, build.sh allows it to be a 109 simple command name, which will be converted to an 110 absolute path by searching the PATH. 111 112 HOST_CC Path name to C compiler used to create the toolchain. 113 114 HOST_CFLAGS Flags passed to the host C compiler. 115 116 HOST_CXX Path name to C++ compiler used to create the toolchain. 117 118 HOST_CXXFLAGS Flags passed to the host C++ compiler. 119 120 INSTALLBOOT_UBOOT_PATHS 121 A colon-separated list of search paths used by 122 installboot(8) to find U-Boot packages. 123 124 MACHINE Machine type, e.g., "macppc". 125 126 MACHINE_ARCH Machine architecture, e.g., "powerpc". 127 128 MAKE Path name to invoke make(1) as. 129 130 MAKECONF The name of the make(1) configuration file. See "make" 131 variables and mk.conf(5). 132 133 Note: Only settable in the process environment. 134 135 Default: "/etc/mk.conf" 136 137 MAKEFLAGS Flags to invoke make(1) with. Note that build.sh 138 ignores the value of MAKEFLAGS passed in the 139 environment, but allows MAKEFLAGS to be set via the -V 140 option. 141 142 MAKEOBJDIR Directory to use as the .OBJDIR for the current 143 directory. The value is subjected to variable 144 expansion by make(1). Typical usage is to set this 145 variable to a value involving the use of 146 `${.CURDIR:S...}' or `${.CURDIR:C...}', to derive the 147 value of .OBJDIR from the value of .CURDIR. Used only 148 if MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is not defined. 149 150 Note: MAKEOBJDIR can be provided only in the 151 environment or via the -O flag of build.sh; it cannot 152 usefully be set inside a Makefile, including in 153 mk.conf(5) or MAKECONF. 154 155 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX Top level directory of the object directory tree. The 156 value is subjected to variable expansion by make(1). 157 build.sh will create the ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX} directory 158 if necessary, but if make(1) is used without build.sh, 159 then rules in <bsd.obj.mk> will abort the build if the 160 ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX} directory does not exist. If the 161 value is defined and valid, then 162 ${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}/${.CURDIR} is used as the .OBJDIR 163 for the current directory. The current directory may 164 be read only. 165 166 Note: MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX can be provided only in the 167 environment or via the -M flag of build.sh; it cannot 168 usefully be set inside a Makefile, including in 169 mk.conf(5) or MAKECONF. 170 171 TMPDIR Top-level directory to store temporary directories used 172 by build.sh before paths to other directories such as 173 .OBJDIR can be determined. 174 175 Note: Must support execution of binaries. I.e., 176 without mount(8)'s -o noexec option. 177 178 Default: "/tmp". 179 180 "make" variables 181 Several variables control the behavior of NetBSD builds. Unless 182 otherwise specified, these variables may be set in either the process 183 environment or the make(1) configuration file mk.conf(5) specified by 184 MAKECONF. This list is not comprehensive; all supported variables and 185 their defaults are documented in mk.conf(5). 186 187 BUILDID Identifier for the build. If set, this should be a short 188 string that is suitable for use as part of a file or 189 directory name. The identifier will be appended to object 190 directory names, and can be consulted in the make(1) 191 configuration file in order to set additional build 192 parameters, such as compiler flags. It will also be used as 193 part of the kernel version string, which can be shown by 194 "uname -v". 195 196 Default: Unset. 197 198 BUILDINFO This may be a multi-line string containing information about 199 the build. This will appear in DESTDIR/etc/release, and it 200 will be stored in the buildinfo variable in any kernels that 201 are built. When such kernels are booted, the sysctl(7) 202 kern.buildinfo variable will report this value. The string 203 may contain backslash escape sequences, such as "\\" 204 (representing a backslash character) and "\n" (representing a 205 newline). 206 207 Default: Unset. 208 209 BUILDSEED GCC uses random numbers when compiling C++ code. This 210 variable seeds the gcc random number generator using the 211 -frandom-seed flag with this value. By default, it is set to 212 NetBSD-(majorversion). Using a fixed value causes C++ 213 binaries to be the same when built from the same sources, 214 resulting in identical (reproducible) builds. Additional 215 information is available in the GCC documentation of 216 -frandom-seed. 217 218 CPUFLAGS Additional flags to the compiler/assembler to select CPU 219 instruction set options, CPU tuning options, etc. 220 221 Default: Unset. 222 223 DESTDIR Directory to contain the built NetBSD system. If set, 224 special options are passed to the compilation tools to 225 prevent their default use of the host system's /usr/include, 226 /usr/lib, and so forth. This pathname must be an absolute 227 path, and should not end with a slash (/) character. (For 228 installation into the system's root directory, set DESTDIR to 229 an empty string, not to "/"). The directory must reside on a 230 file system which supports long file names and hard links. 231 232 Default: Empty string if USETOOLS is "yes"; unset otherwise. 233 234 Note: build.sh will provide a default of destdir.MACHINE (in 235 the top-level .OBJDIR) unless run in `expert' mode. 236 237 MAKEVERBOSE 238 Level of verbosity of status messages. Supported values: 239 240 0 No descriptive messages or commands executed by make(1) 241 are shown. 242 243 1 Brief messages are shown describing what is being done, 244 but the actual commands executed by make(1) are not 245 shown. 246 247 2 Descriptive messages are shown as above (prefixed with a 248 `#'), and ordinary commands performed by make(1) are 249 shown. 250 251 3 In addition to the above, all commands performed by 252 make(1) are shown, even if they would ordinarily have 253 been hidden through use of the "@" prefix in the 254 relevant makefile. 255 256 4 In addition to the above, commands executed by make(1) 257 are traced through use of the sh(1) "-x" flag. 258 259 Default: 2 260 261 MKCATPAGES Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether preformatted 262 plaintext manual pages will be created during a build. 263 264 Default: "no" 265 266 MKCROSSGDB Can be set to "yes" or "no". Create a cross-gdb as a host 267 tool. 268 269 Default: "no" 270 271 MKDEBUG Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether debug 272 information should be generated for all userland binaries 273 compiled. The result is collected as an additional debug.tgz 274 and xdebug.tgz set and installed in /usr/libdata/debug. 275 276 Default: "no" 277 278 MKDEBUGLIB Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether debug 279 information (see MKDEBUG) should also be generated for all 280 libraries built. 281 282 Default: "no" 283 284 MKDOC Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether system 285 documentation destined for DESTDIR/usr/share/doc will be 286 installed during a build. 287 288 Default: "yes" 289 290 MKHTML Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether preformatted 291 HTML manual pages will be built and installed 292 293 Default: "yes" 294 295 MKHOSTOBJ Can be set to "yes" or "no". If set to "yes", then for 296 programs intended to be run on the compile host, the name, 297 release, and architecture of the host operating system will 298 be suffixed to the name of the object directory created by 299 "make obj". (This allows multiple host systems to compile 300 NetBSD for a single target.) If set to "no", then programs 301 built to be run on the compile host will use the same object 302 directory names as programs built to be run on the target. 303 304 Default: "no" 305 306 MKINFO Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether GNU Info 307 files will be created and installed during a build. GNU Info 308 files are used for providing documentation by most of the 309 compilation tools. 310 311 Default: "yes" 312 313 MKKDEBUG Can be set to "yes" or "no". Force generation of full-debug 314 symbol versions of all kernels compiled. Alongside of the 315 netbsd kernel file, an unstripped version netbsd.gdb is 316 created. This is useful if a cross-gdb is built as well (see 317 MKCROSSGDB). 318 319 Default: "no" 320 321 MKKMOD Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether kernel 322 modules are built and installed. 323 324 Default: "yes" 325 326 MKLINT Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether lint(1) will 327 be run against portions of the NetBSD source code during the 328 build, and whether lint libraries will be installed into 329 DESTDIR/usr/libdata/lint. 330 331 Default: "no" 332 333 MKMAN Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether manual pages 334 will be installed during a build. 335 336 Default: "yes" 337 338 MKNLS Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether Native 339 Language System locale zone files will be compiled and 340 installed during a build. 341 342 Default: "yes" 343 344 MKOBJ Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether object 345 directories will be created when running "make obj". If set 346 to "no", then all built files will be located inside the 347 regular source tree. 348 349 Default: "yes" 350 351 Note that setting MKOBJ to "no" is not recommended and may 352 cause problems when updating the tree with cvs(1). 353 354 MKPIC Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether shared 355 objects and libraries will be created and installed during a 356 build. If set to "no", the entire built system will be 357 statically linked. 358 359 Default: Platform dependent. As of this writing, all 360 platforms except m68000 default to "yes". 361 362 MKPICINSTALL 363 Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether the ar(1) 364 format libraries (lib*_pic.a), used to generate shared 365 libraries, are installed during a build. 366 367 Default: "yes" 368 369 MKPROFILE Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether profiled 370 libraries (lib*_p.a) will be built and installed during a 371 build. 372 373 Default: "yes"; however, some platforms turn off MKPROFILE by 374 default at times due to toolchain problems with profiled 375 code. 376 377 MKREPRO Can be set to "yes" or "no". Create reproducible builds. 378 This enables different switches to make two builds from the 379 same source tree result in the same build results. 380 381 Default: "no" This may be set to "yes" by giving build.sh the 382 -P option. 383 384 MKREPRO_TIMESTAMP 385 Unix timestamp. When MKREPRO is set, the timestamp of all 386 files in the sets will be set to this value. 387 388 Default: Unset. This may be set automatically to the latest 389 source tree timestamp using cvslatest(1) by giving build.sh 390 the -P option. 391 392 MKSHARE Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether files 393 destined to reside in DESTDIR/usr/share will be built and 394 installed during a build. If set to "no", then all of 395 MKCATPAGES, MKDOC, MKINFO, MKMAN, and MKNLS will be set to 396 "no" unconditionally. 397 398 Default: "yes" 399 400 MKSTRIPIDENT 401 Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether RCS IDs, for 402 use with ident(1), should be stripped from program binaries 403 and shared libraries. 404 405 Default: "no" 406 407 MKSTRIPSYM Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether all local 408 symbols should be stripped from shared libraries. If "yes", 409 strip all local symbols from shared libraries; the affect is 410 equivalent to the -x option of ld(1). If "no", strip only 411 temporary local symbols; the affect is equivalent to the -X 412 option of ld(1). Keeping non-temporary local symbols such as 413 static function names is useful on using DTrace for userland 414 libraries and getting a backtrace from a rump kernel loading 415 shared libraries. 416 417 Default: "yes" 418 419 MKUNPRIVED Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether an 420 unprivileged install will occur. The user, group, 421 permissions, and file flags, will not be set on the installed 422 items; instead the information will be appended to a file 423 called METALOG in DESTDIR. The contents of METALOG are used 424 during the generation of the distribution tar files to ensure 425 that the appropriate file ownership is stored. 426 427 Default: "no" 428 429 MKUPDATE Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether all install 430 operations intended to write to DESTDIR will compare file 431 timestamps before installing, and skip the install phase if 432 the destination files are up-to-date. This also has 433 implications on full builds (see next subsection). 434 435 Default: "no" 436 437 MKX11 Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether X11 is built 438 from X11SRCDIR. 439 440 Default: "no" 441 442 TOOLDIR Directory to hold the host tools, once built. If specified, 443 must be an absolute path. This directory should be unique to 444 a given host system and NetBSD source tree. (However, 445 multiple targets may share the same TOOLDIR; the target- 446 dependent files have unique names.) If unset, a default 447 based on the uname(1) information of the host platform will 448 be created in the .OBJDIR of src. 449 450 Default: Unset. 451 452 USETOOLS Indicates whether the tools specified by TOOLDIR should be 453 used as part of a build in progress. Must be set to "yes" if 454 cross-compiling. 455 456 yes Use the tools from TOOLDIR. 457 458 no Do not use the tools from TOOLDIR, but refuse to build 459 native compilation tool components that are version- 460 specific for that tool. 461 462 never Do not use the tools from TOOLDIR, even when building 463 native tool components. This is similar to the 464 traditional NetBSD build method, but does not verify 465 that the compilation tools in use are up-to-date 466 enough in order to build the tree successfully. This 467 may cause build or runtime problems when building the 468 whole NetBSD source tree. 469 470 Default: "yes", unless TOOLCHAIN_MISSING is set to "yes". 471 472 USETOOLS is also set to "no" when using <bsd.*.mk> outside 473 the NetBSD source tree. 474 475 X11SRCDIR Directory containing the modular Xorg source. If specified, 476 must be an absolute path. The main modular Xorg source is 477 found in X11SRCDIR/external/mit. 478 479 Default: NETBSDSRCDIR/../xsrc, if that exists; otherwise 480 /usr/xsrc. 481 482 "make" variables for full builds 483 These variables only affect the top level "Makefile" and do not affect 484 manually building subtrees of the NetBSD source code. 485 486 INSTALLBOOT_BOARDS 487 A list of boards to create bootable images for. If 488 corresponding U-Boot packages are installed, bootable 489 images are created as part of a release. See the 490 -o board=name option of installboot(8). 491 492 INSTALLWORLDDIR Location for the "make installworld" target to install 493 to. If specified, must be an absolute path. 494 495 Default: "/" 496 497 MKOBJDIRS Can be set to "yes" or "no". Indicates whether object 498 directories will be created automatically (via a "make 499 obj" pass) at the start of a build. 500 501 Default: "no" 502 503 If using build.sh, the default is "yes". This may be 504 set back to "no" by giving build.sh the -o option. 505 506 MKUPDATE Can be set to "yes" or "no". If set, then in addition 507 to the effects described for MKUPDATE=yes above, this 508 implies the effects of NOCLEANDIR (i.e., "make cleandir" 509 is avoided). 510 511 Default: "no" 512 513 If using build.sh, this may be set by giving the -u 514 option. 515 516 NBUILDJOBS Now obsolete. Use the make(1) option -j, instead. See 517 below. 518 519 Default: Unset. 520 521 NOCLEANDIR If set, avoids the "make cleandir" phase of a full 522 build. This has the effect of allowing only changed 523 files in a source tree to be recompiled. This can speed 524 up builds when updating only a few files in the tree. 525 526 Default: Unset. 527 528 See also MKUPDATE. 529 530 NODISTRIBDIRS If set, avoids the "make distrib-dirs" phase of a full 531 build. This skips running mtree(8) on DESTDIR, useful 532 on systems where building as an unprivileged user, or 533 where it is known that the system-wide mtree files have 534 not changed. 535 536 Default: Unset. 537 538 NOINCLUDES If set, avoids the "make includes" phase of a full 539 build. This has the effect of preventing make(1) from 540 thinking that some programs are out-of-date simply 541 because the system include files have changed. However, 542 this option should not be used when updating the entire 543 NetBSD source tree arbitrarily; it is suggested to use 544 MKUPDATE=yes instead in that case. 545 546 Default: Unset. 547 548 RELEASEDIR If set, specifies the directory to which a release(7) 549 layout will be written at the end of a "make release". 550 If specified, must be an absolute path. 551 552 Default: Unset. 553 554 Note: build.sh will provide a default of releasedir (in 555 the top-level .OBJDIR) unless run in `expert' mode. 556 557 BUILDING 558 "make" command line options 559 This is not a summary of all the options available to make(1); only the 560 options used most frequently with NetBSD builds are listed here. 561 562 -j njob Run up to njob make(1) subjobs in parallel. Makefiles should 563 use .WAIT or have explicit dependencies as necessary to 564 enforce build ordering. 565 566 -m dir Specify the default directory for searching for system 567 Makefile segments, mainly the <bsd.*.mk> files. When building 568 any full NetBSD source tree, this should be set to the 569 "share/mk" directory in the source tree. This is set 570 automatically when building from the top level, or when using 571 build.sh. 572 573 -n Show the commands that would have been executed, but do not 574 actually execute them. This will still cause recursion to 575 take place. 576 577 -V var Show make(1)'s idea of the value of var. Does not build any 578 targets. 579 580 var=value Set the variable var to value, overriding any setting 581 specified by the process environment, the MAKECONF 582 configuration file, or the system Makefile segments. 583 584 "make" targets 585 These default targets may be built by running make(1) in any subtree of 586 the NetBSD source code. It is recommended that none of these be used 587 from the top level Makefile; as a specific exception, "make obj" and 588 "make cleandir" are useful in that context. 589 590 all Build programs, libraries, and preformatted documentation. 591 592 clean Remove program and library object code files. 593 594 cleandir Same as clean, but also remove preformatted documentation, 595 dependency files generated by "make depend", and any other 596 files known to be created at build time. 597 598 depend Create dependency files (.depend) containing more detailed 599 information about the dependencies of source code on header 600 files. Allows programs to be recompiled automatically when a 601 dependency changes. 602 603 dependall Does a "make depend" immediately followed by a "make all". 604 This improves cache locality of the build since both passes 605 read the source files in their entirety. 606 607 distclean Synonym for cleandir. 608 609 includes Build and install system header files. Typically needed 610 before any system libraries or programs can be built. 611 612 install Install programs, libraries, and documentation into DESTDIR. 613 Few files will be installed to DESTDIR/dev, DESTDIR/etc, 614 DESTDIR/root or DESTDIR/var in order to prevent user supplied 615 configuration data from being overwritten. 616 617 lint Run lint(1) against the C source code, where appropriate, and 618 generate system-installed lint libraries. 619 620 obj Create object directories to be used for built files, instead 621 of building directly in the source tree. 622 623 tags Create ctags(1) searchable function lists usable by the ex(1) 624 and vi(1) text editors. 625 626 "make" targets for the top level 627 Additional make(1) targets are usable specifically from the top source 628 level to facilitate building the entire NetBSD source tree. 629 630 build Build the entire NetBSD system (except the kernel). This 631 orders portions of the source tree such that prerequisites 632 will be built in the proper order. 633 634 distribution Do a "make build", and then install a full distribution 635 (which does not include a kernel) into DESTDIR, including 636 files in DESTDIR/dev, DESTDIR/etc, DESTDIR/root and 637 DESTDIR/var. 638 639 buildworld As per "make distribution", except that it ensures that 640 DESTDIR is not the root directory. 641 642 installworld Install the distribution from DESTDIR to INSTALLWORLDDIR, 643 which defaults to the root directory. Ensures that 644 INSTALLWORLDDIR is not the root directory if cross 645 compiling. 646 647 The INSTALLSETS environment variable may be set to a space- 648 separated list of distribution sets to be installed. By 649 default, all sets except "etc" and "xetc" are installed, so 650 most files in INSTALLWORLDDIR/etc will not be installed or 651 modified. 652 653 Note: Before performing this operation with 654 INSTALLWORLDDIR=/, it is highly recommended that you 655 upgrade your kernel and reboot. After performing this 656 operation, it is recommended that you use etcupdate(8) to 657 update files in INSTALLWORLDDIR/etc, and postinstall(8) to 658 check for or fix inconsistencies. 659 660 sets Create distribution sets from DESTDIR into 661 RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/binary/sets. Should be run 662 after "make distribution", as "make build" alone does not 663 install all of the required files. 664 665 sourcesets Create source sets of the source tree into 666 RELEASEDIR/source/sets. 667 668 syspkgs Create syspkgs from DESTDIR into 669 RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/binary/syspkgs. Should be run 670 after "make distribution", as "make build" alone does not 671 install all of the required files. 672 673 release Do a "make distribution", build kernels, distribution 674 media, and install sets (this as per "make sets"), and then 675 package the system into a standard release layout as 676 described by release(7). This requires that RELEASEDIR be 677 set (see above). 678 679 iso-image Create a NetBSD installation CD-ROM image in the 680 RELEASEDIR/images directory. The CD-ROM file system will 681 have a layout as described in release(7). 682 683 For most machine types, the CD-ROM will be bootable, and 684 will automatically run the sysinst(8) menu-based 685 installation program, which can be used to install or 686 upgrade a NetBSD system. Bootable CD-ROMs also contain 687 tools that may be useful in repairing a damaged NetBSD 688 installation. 689 690 Before "make iso-image" is attempted, RELEASEDIR must be 691 populated by "make release" or equivalent. 692 693 Note that other, smaller, CD-ROM images may be created in 694 the RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/installation/cdrom 695 directory by "make release". These smaller images usually 696 contain the same tools as the larger images in 697 RELEASEDIR/images, but do not contain additional content 698 such as the distribution sets. 699 700 Note that the mac68k port still uses an older method of 701 creating CD-ROM images. This requires the mkisofs(1) 702 utility, which is not part of NetBSD, but which can be 703 installed from pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrtools. 704 705 iso-image-source 706 Create a NetBSD installation CD-ROM image in the 707 RELEASEDIR/images directory. The CD-ROM file system will 708 have a layout as described in release(7). It will have top 709 level directories for the machine type and source. 710 711 For most machine types, the CD-ROM will be bootable, and 712 will automatically run the sysinst(8) menu-based 713 installation program, which can be used to install or 714 upgrade a NetBSD system. Bootable CD-ROMs also contain 715 tools that may be useful in repairing a damaged NetBSD 716 installation. 717 718 Before "make iso-image-source" is attempted, RELEASEDIR 719 must be populated by "make sourcesets release" or 720 equivalent. 721 722 Note that other, smaller, CD-ROM images may be created in 723 the RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/installation/cdrom 724 directory by "make release". These smaller images usually 725 contain the same tools as the larger images in 726 RELEASEDIR/images, but do not contain additional content 727 such as the distribution sets. 728 729 Note that the mac68k port still uses an older method of 730 creating CD-ROM images. This requires the mkisofs(1) 731 utility, which is not part of NetBSD, but which can be 732 installed from pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrtools. 733 734 install-image 735 Create a bootable NetBSD installation disk image in the 736 RELEASEDIR/images directory. The installation disk image 737 is suitable for copying to bootable USB flash memory 738 sticks, etc., for machines which are able to boot from such 739 devices. The file system in the bootable disk image will 740 have a layout as described in release(7). 741 742 The installation image is bootable, and will automatically 743 run the sysinst(8) menu-based installation program, which 744 can be used to install or upgrade a NetBSD system. The 745 image also contains tools that may be useful in repairing a 746 damaged NetBSD installation. 747 748 Before "make install-image" is attempted, RELEASEDIR must 749 be populated by "make release" or equivalent. The build 750 must have been performed with MKUNPRIVED=yes because "make 751 install-image" relies on information in DESTDIR/METALOG. 752 753 live-image Create NetBSD live images in the RELEASEDIR/images 754 directory. The live image contains all necessary files to 755 boot NetBSD up to multi-user mode, including all files 756 which should be extracted during installation, NetBSD 757 disklabel, bootloaders, etc. 758 759 The live image is suitable for use as a disk image in 760 virtual machine environments such as QEMU, and also useful 761 to boot NetBSD from a USB flash memory stick on a real 762 machine, without the need for installation. 763 764 Before "make live-image" is attempted, RELEASEDIR must be 765 populated by "make release" or equivalent. The build must 766 have been performed with MKUNPRIVED=yes because "make 767 install-image" relies on information in DESTDIR/METALOG. 768 769 regression-tests 770 Can only be run after building the regression tests in the 771 directory "regress". Runs those compiled regression tests 772 on the local host. Note that most tests are now managed 773 instead using atf(7); this target should probably run those 774 as well but currently does not. 775 776 The "build.sh" script 777 This script file is a shell script designed to build the entire NetBSD 778 system on any host with a suitable modern shell and some common 779 utilities. The required shell features are described under the HOST_SH 780 variable. 781 782 If a host system's default shell does support the required features, then 783 we suggest that you explicitly specify a suitable shell using a command 784 like 785 786 /path/to/suitable/shell build.sh [options] 787 788 The above command will usually enable build.sh to automatically set 789 HOST_SH=/path/to/suitable/shell, but if that fails, then the following 790 set of commands may be used instead: 791 792 HOST_SH=/path/to/suitable/shell 793 export HOST_SH 794 ${HOST_SH} build.sh [options] 795 796 If build.sh detects that it is being executed under an unsuitable shell, 797 it attempts to exec a suitable shell instead, or shows an error message. 798 If HOST_SH is not set explicitly, then build.sh sets a default using 799 heuristics dependent on the host platform, or from the shell under which 800 build.sh is executed (if that can be determined), or using the first copy 801 of sh found in PATH. 802 803 All cross-compile builds, and most native builds, of the entire system 804 should make use of build.sh rather than just running "make". This way, 805 the make(1) program will be bootstrapped properly, in case the host 806 system has an older or incompatible "make" program. 807 808 When compiling the entire system via build.sh, many make(1) variables are 809 set for you in order to help encapsulate the build process. In the list 810 of options below, variables that are automatically set by build.sh are 811 noted where applicable. 812 813 The following operations are supported by build.sh: 814 815 build Build the system as per "make build". Before the main part 816 of the build commences, this command runs the obj operation 817 (unless the -o option is given), "make cleandir" (unless 818 the -u option is given), and the tools operation. 819 820 distribution Build a full distribution as per "make distribution". This 821 command first runs the build operation. 822 823 release Build a full release as per "make release". This command 824 first runs the distribution operation. 825 826 help Show a help message, and exit. 827 828 makewrapper Create the nbmake-MACHINE wrapper. This operation is 829 automatically performed for any of the other operations. 830 831 cleandir Perform "make cleandir". 832 833 obj Perform "make obj". 834 835 tools Build and install the host tools from src/tools. This 836 command will first run "make obj" and "make cleandir" in 837 the tools subdirectory unless the -o or -u options 838 (respectively) are given. 839 840 install=idir Install the contents of DESTDIR to idir, using "make 841 installworld". Note that files that are part of the "etc" 842 or "xetc" sets will not be installed, unless overridden by 843 the INSTALLSETS environment variable. 844 845 kernel=kconf Build a new kernel. The kconf argument is the name of a 846 configuration file suitable for use by config(1). If kconf 847 does not contain any `/' characters, the configuration file 848 is expected to be found in the KERNCONFDIR directory, which 849 is typically sys/arch/MACHINE/conf. The new kernel will be 850 built in a subdirectory of KERNOBJDIR, which is typically 851 sys/arch/MACHINE/compile or an associated object directory. 852 853 This command does not imply the tools command; run the 854 tools command first unless it is certain that the tools 855 already exist and are up to date. 856 857 This command will run "make cleandir" on the kernel in 858 question first unless the -u option is given. 859 860 kernel.gdb=kconf 861 Build a new kernel with debug information. Similar to the 862 above kernel=kconf operation, but creates a netbsd.gdb file 863 alongside of the kernel netbsd, which contains a full 864 symbol table and can be used for debugging (for example 865 with a cross-gdb built by MKCROSSGDB). 866 867 kernels This command will build all kernels defined in port 868 specific release build procedure. 869 870 This command internally calls the kernel=kconf operation 871 for each found kernel configuration file. 872 873 modules This command will build kernel modules and install them 874 into DESTDIR. 875 876 releasekernel=kconf 877 Install a gzip(1)ed copy of the kernel previously built by 878 kernel=kconf into 879 RELEASEDIR/RELEASEMACHINEDIR/binary/kernel, usually as 880 netbsd-kconf.gz, although the "netbsd" prefix is determined 881 from the "config" directives in kconf. 882 883 sets Perform "make sets". 884 885 sourcesets Perform "make sourcesets". 886 887 syspkgs Perform "make syspkgs". 888 889 iso-image Perform "make iso-image". 890 891 iso-image-source 892 Perform "make iso-image-source". 893 894 install-image 895 Perform "make install-image". 896 897 live-image Perform "make live-image". 898 899 list-arch Show a list of valid MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH settings, the 900 default MACHINE_ARCH for each MACHINE, and aliases for 901 MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH pairs, and then exits. The -m or -a 902 options (or both) may be used to specify glob patterns that 903 will be used to narrow the list of results; for example, 904 "build.sh -m 'evb*' -a '*arm*' list-arch" will list all 905 known MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH values in which either MACHINE 906 or ALIAS matches the pattern `evb*', and MACHINE_ARCH 907 matches the pattern `*arm*'. 908 909 The following command line options alter the behaviour of the build.sh 910 operations described above: 911 912 -a arch Set the value of MACHINE_ARCH to arch. See the -m option for 913 more information. 914 915 -B buildid 916 Set the value of BUILDID to buildid. This will also append the 917 build identifier to the name of the "make" wrapper script so 918 that the resulting name is of the form 919 "nbmake-MACHINE-BUILDID". 920 921 -C cdextras 922 Append cdextras to the CDEXTRA variable, which is a space- 923 separated list of files or directories that will be added to 924 the CD-ROM image that may be create by the "iso-image" or 925 "iso-image-source" operations. Files will be added to the root 926 of the CD-ROM image, whereas directories will be copied 927 recursively. If relative paths are specified, they will be 928 converted to absolute paths before being used. Multiple paths 929 may be specified via multiple -C options, or via a single 930 option whose argument contains multiple space-separated paths. 931 932 -c compiler 933 Select the compiler for the toolchain to build NetBSD and for 934 inclusion in the NetBSD distribution. Supported choices: 935 936 clang 937 938 gcc [default] 939 940 The compiler used to build the toolchain can be different; see 941 HOST_CC and HOST_CXX. 942 943 -D dest Set the value of DESTDIR to dest. If a relative path is 944 specified, it will be converted to an absolute path before 945 being used. 946 947 -E Set `expert' mode. This overrides various sanity checks, and 948 allows: DESTDIR does not have to be set to a non-root path for 949 builds, and MKUNPRIVED=yes does not have to be set when 950 building as a non-root user. 951 952 Note: It is highly recommended that you know what you are doing 953 when you use this option. 954 955 -h Show a help message, and exit. 956 957 -j njob Run up to njob make(1) subjobs in parallel; passed through to 958 make(1). If you see failures for reasons other than running 959 out of memory while using build.sh with -j, please save 960 complete build logs so the failures can be analyzed. 961 962 To achieve the fastest builds, -j values between (1 + the 963 number of CPUs) and (2 * the number of CPUs) are recommended. 964 Use lower values on machines with limited memory or I/O 965 bandwidth. 966 967 -M obj Set MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX to obj. Unsets MAKEOBJDIR. See "-O obj" 968 for more information. 969 970 For instance, if the source directory is /usr/src, a setting of 971 "-M /usr/obj" will place build-time files under 972 /usr/obj/usr/src/bin, /usr/obj/usr/src/lib, 973 /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin, and 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 -M option must not begin 978 with a "$" (dollar sign) character; otherwise it would be too 979 difficult to determine whether the value is an absolute or a 980 relative path. If the directory does not already exist, 981 build.sh will create it. 982 983 -m mach Set the value of MACHINE to mach, unless the mach argument is 984 an alias that refers to a MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH pair, in which 985 case both MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH are set from the alias. 986 Such aliases are interpreted entirely by build.sh; they are not 987 used by any other part of the build system. The MACHINE_ARCH 988 setting implied by mach will override any value of MACHINE_ARCH 989 in the process environment, but will not override a value set 990 by the -a option. All cross builds require -m, but if unset on 991 a NetBSD host, the host's value of MACHINE will be detected and 992 used automatically. 993 994 See the list-arch operation for a way to get a list of valid 995 MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH settings. 996 997 -N noiselevel 998 Set the "noisyness" level of the build, by setting MAKEVERBOSE 999 to noiselevel. 1000 1001 -n Show the commands that would be executed by build.sh, but do 1002 not make any changes. This is similar in concept to "make -n". 1003 1004 -O obj Create an appropriate transform macro for MAKEOBJDIR that will 1005 place the built object files under obj. Unsets 1006 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX. 1007 1008 For instance, a setting of "-O /usr/obj" will place build-time 1009 files under /usr/obj/bin, /usr/obj/lib, /usr/obj/usr.bin, and 1010 so forth. 1011 1012 If a relative path is specified, it will be converted to an 1013 absolute path before being used. build.sh imposes the 1014 restriction that the argument to the -O option must not contain 1015 a "$" (dollar sign) character. If the directory does not 1016 already exist, build.sh will create it. 1017 1018 In normal use, exactly one of the -M or -O options should be 1019 specified. If neither -M nor -O is specified, then a default 1020 object directory will be chosen according to rules in 1021 <bsd.obj.mk>. Relying on this default is not recommended 1022 because it is determined by complex rules that are influenced 1023 by the values of several variables and by the location of the 1024 source directory. 1025 1026 Note that placing the obj directory location outside of the 1027 default source tree hierarchy makes it easier to manually clear 1028 out old files in the event the "make cleandir" operation is 1029 unable to do so. (See CAVEATS below.) 1030 1031 Note also that use of one of -M or -O is the only means of 1032 building multiple machine architecture userlands from the same 1033 source tree without cleaning between builds (in which case, one 1034 would specify distinct obj locations for each). 1035 1036 -o Set the value of MKOBJDIRS to "no". Otherwise, it will be 1037 automatically set to "yes". This default is opposite to the 1038 behaviour when not using build.sh. 1039 1040 -P Set the value of MKREPRO and MKREPRO_TIMESTAMP to the latest 1041 source CVS timestamp for reproducible builds. 1042 1043 -R rel Set the value of RELEASEDIR to rel. If a relative path is 1044 specified, it will be converted to an absolute path before 1045 being used. 1046 1047 -r Remove the contents of DESTDIR and TOOLDIR before building 1048 (provides a clean starting point). This will skip deleting 1049 DESTDIR if building on a native system to the root directory. 1050 1051 -S seed Change the value of BUILDSEED to seed. This should rarely be 1052 necessary. 1053 1054 -T tools Set the value of TOOLDIR to tools. If a relative path is 1055 specified, it will be converted to an absolute path before 1056 being used. If set, the bootstrap "make" will only be rebuilt 1057 if the source files for make(1) have changed. 1058 1059 -U Set MKUNPRIVED=yes. 1060 1061 -u Set MKUPDATE=yes. 1062 1063 -V var=[value] 1064 Set the environment variable var to an optional value. This is 1065 propagated to the nbmake wrapper. 1066 1067 -w wrapper 1068 Create the nbmake wrapper script (see below) in a custom 1069 location, specified by wrapper. This allows, for instance, to 1070 place the wrapper in PATH automatically. Note that wrapper is 1071 the full name of the file, not just a directory name. If a 1072 relative path is specified, it will be converted to an absolute 1073 path before being used. 1074 1075 -X x11src 1076 Set the value of X11SRCDIR to x11src. If a relative path is 1077 specified, it will be converted to an absolute path before 1078 being used. 1079 1080 -x Set MKX11=yes. 1081 1082 -Z var Unset ("zap") the environment variable var. This is propagated 1083 to the nbmake wrapper. 1084 1085 -? Show a help message, and exit. 1086 1087 The "nbmake-MACHINE" wrapper script 1088 If using the build.sh script to build NetBSD, a nbmake-MACHINE script 1089 will be created in TOOLDIR/bin upon the first build to assist in building 1090 subtrees on a cross-compile host. 1091 1092 nbmake-MACHINE can be invoked in lieu of make(1), and will instead call 1093 the up-to-date version of "nbmake" installed into TOOLDIR/bin with 1094 several key variables pre-set, including MACHINE, MACHINE_ARCH, and 1095 TOOLDIR. nbmake-MACHINE will also set variables specified with -V, and 1096 unset variables specified with -Z. 1097 1098 This script can be symlinked into a directory listed in PATH, or called 1099 with an absolute path. 1100 1101 EXAMPLES 1102 1. % ./build.sh [options] tools kernel=GENERIC 1103 1104 Build a new toolchain, and use the new toolchain to configure and 1105 build a new GENERIC kernel. 1106 1107 2. % ./build.sh [options] -U distribution 1108 1109 Using unprivileged mode, build a complete distribution to a DESTDIR 1110 directory that build.sh selects (and will show). 1111 1112 3. # ./build.sh [options] -U install=/ 1113 1114 As root, install to / the distribution that was built by example 2. 1115 Even though this is run as root, -U is required so that the 1116 permissions stored in DESTDIR/METALOG are correctly applied to the 1117 files as they're copied to /. 1118 1119 4. % ./build.sh [options] -U -u release 1120 1121 Using unprivileged mode, build a complete release to DESTDIR and 1122 RELEASEDIR directories that build.sh selects (and will show). 1123 MKUPDATE=yes (-u) is set to prevent the "make cleandir", so that if 1124 this is run after example 2, it doesn't need to redo that portion of 1125 the release build. 1126 1127 OBSOLETE VARIABLES 1128 NBUILDJOBS Use the make(1) option -j instead. 1129 1130 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN 1131 The new toolchain is now the default. To disable, use 1132 TOOLCHAIN_MISSING=yes. 1133 1134 SEE ALSO 1135 make(1), mk.conf(5), hier(7), release(7), etcupdate(8), installboot(8), 1136 mount(8), postinstall(8), sysinst(8), pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrtools 1137 1138 HISTORY 1139 The build.sh based build scheme was introduced for NetBSD 1.6 as 1140 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN, and re-worked to TOOLCHAIN_MISSING after that. 1141 1142 CAVEATS 1143 After significant updates to third-party components in the source tree, 1144 the "make cleandir" operation may be insufficient to clean out old files 1145 in object directories. Instead, one may have to manually remove the 1146 files. Consult the UPDATING file for notices concerning this. 1147 1148 NetBSD May 18, 2023 NetBSD 1149
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