Building FreeBSD 9.0 i386

balanga · 2026-02-07T09:05:30+0000

How would I go about building FreeBSD 9.0 i386 in a jail?

balanga · 2026-02-07T21:30:40+0000

I guess I need to cd /usr/src and make buildworld

and this shouldn't depend on which version I want to build and being in a jail shouldn't make any difference.

Have I got that right?

MG · 2026-02-07T21:55:42+0000

balanga said:
I guess I need to cd /usr/src and make buildworld

and this shouldn't depend on which version I want to build and being in a jail shouldn't make any difference.

Have I got that right?

Not entirely sure but I think it's a good idea to have the build machine booted with the i386 kernel so all the system calls are compatible. I wonder how far a amd64 15.0 system gets with crosscompiling, though. Is i386 even suported still?

balanga · 2026-02-08T00:00:54+0000

MG said:
Not entirely sure but I think it's a good idea to have the build machine booted with the i386 kernel so all the system calls are compatible. I wonder how far a amd64 15.0 system gets with crosscompiling, though. Is i386 even suported still?

I've just installed it and am running it naitively so I'll see how far I get after just extracting base kernel and src txz's without any packages.