FreeBSD and RTEMS

[Joel Sherrill]

Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> 
> On  7/06, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> | There are more FreeBSD/RTEMS users out there than I realized. :)
> 
> Count me in :)
> 
> | We would be happy to host FreeBSD tool binaries if someone would
> | go to the effort to build and package them.  Right now, we are
> | using RPM to provide executables for Linux, Cygwin, and Solaris SPARC.
> 
> This is not the way FreeBSD work usually: there is the "ports" concept, which
> will automatically fetch RTEMS sources, apply (if needed) FreeBSD specific
> patches and build then install the resulting program. Everything is in
> place for compiling, you do not need to provide binary versions.

Isn't there a description/specification file that has to be 
constructed to make this magic happen?

If so and someone can construct a set, it shouldn't be THAT
difficult to maintain them. <says ignorantly>

And .. doesn't it eliminate some hassle on the user to avoid building
the tools?  It is time-consuming.  Is there a binary packaging
format as well?

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