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 (For building from out-of-date systems or 48 on a non-native host, see the build.sh shell script.) 49 50 UPDATING Special notes for updating from an earlier revision of 51 NetBSD.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76 77 tools/ ``Reachover'' build structure for the host build tools. 78 This has a special method of determining out-of-date sta- 79 tus. 80 81 bin/ ...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