Toolchain and Build System Session

This session / working group will investigate the state of the build system and toolchain. For now this page is just a braindump of ideas. Feel free to add more details and topics yourself.

Possible agenda items:

1. Cross compilation support
2. External toolchain
3. Linker status
4. Removing GNU components from base
5. Modularity in the base system

• Import bmake into HEAD with a WITH_BMAKE option to make it install as /usr/bin/make
  • Add bmake compat to *.mk
• Post bmake import, create clean meta mode patch based on it.
• MFC :tu and :tl back to 7.
• Test ports with bmake and discuss bmake compat shim with portmgr
• Start discussion on designing new build system perhaps on toolchain@
  • We do want to use staging during the build process rather than the partial staging done by the includes and libraries targets
  • Support external toolchains
  • Give more thought to the ways flags are set. *Allow CFLAGS on the command line without breaking the build?
    • Saner per-compiler FLAGS?
  • De-conflate WORLDTMP's cross toolchain and sysroot uses
  • De-conflate LDFLAGS for cc and for ld