Installation of Gentoo/FreeBsd

[mirojira]

Does anybody have experience with installation Gentoo/FreeBSD ? Following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-freebsd.xml I am running

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emerge -e system

With my Gentoo installation to run this command takes some 3 hours. But now emerging sys-devel/gcc-4.2.2 lasting 3 hours. Is it normal or should I interrupt it?

[welp]

Hey,

Good to see more people experimenting with Gentoo/FreeBSD!

Now, onto business... The amount of time it takes for packages varies. gcc is a well-known large package which will often take a number of hours to compile, even on relatively modern systems.
Here's how long it took on my 2.4GHz P4 computer with 1GB RAM:

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Pythagoras ~ # qlop -tH gcc
gcc: 4 hours, 31 minutes, 29 seconds for 4 merges
Pythagoras ~ # 

So, yeah, don't cancel the compile. Else you're gonna be waiting even longer, and I'm sure you won't want that

If you're an IRC user, feel free to pop into #gentoo-bsd on irc.freenode.net!

welp

[mark_alec]

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Gentoo on Alternative Architectures.

[mirojira]

Thanks Welp. I finished installation. When configured kernel I did not make any changes. Problem is that I am not able to boot into Gentoo/FreeBSD. Former lilo.conf looked like that

LBA32
boot = /dev/sda
map = /boot/.map

menu-scheme=Wb
prompt
timeout=50
delay = 50
default = Windows

image = /boot/kernel-2.6.22-gentoo-r9
root = /dev/sdb5
label = Gentoo
read-only

other = /dev/sda1
label = Windows
table = /dev/sda

other = /dev/sdb1
label = FreeBSD
table = /dev/sdb

and everythings worked fine.After finished installation of Gentoo/FreeBSD I added

other = /dev/sdb2
label = GFBSD
table = /dev/sdb

but my LILO booted FreeBSD even if I choose GFBSD. I added

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loader=/boot/chain.b

Did not help.After that commented part

other = /dev/sdb1
label = FreeBSD
table = /dev/sdb

but my LILO still keeps booting FreeBSD. I am not able to find out solution at the moment.

[mikesh]

I'm also currently going down the road of installing Gentoo/FreeBSD. However I encounter some problems when rebuilding the system.

I downloaded the stage3 via the link in the documentation and did a "emerge --sync". Now the problems start:

• portage and bash block each other (manual resolution fixed this)
• python cannot be upgraded because /usr/sbin/python-upgrader belongs to python-2.4.4, but is a package on its own with ptyhon-2.5 (manual resolution fixed this)
• groff configure complains about g++ not being smart enough to compile it (what the heck???)
• ...

It goes on like this with a few other issues. Searching the forums didn't turn out any problems like those. My experience with gentoo (4 years sysop @ university) also suggest that I'm doing something wrong here. (Blame yourself first...)

Did anyone encounter similar problems?

Sincerely
Meikel

[mirojira]

It goes on like this with a few other issues. Searching the forums didn't turn out any problems like those. My experience with gentoo (4 years sysop @ university) also suggest that I'm doing something wrong here. (Blame yourself first...)
l

I did not have problems like you during installation. Problems started with installation of the applications. Up to now I was not able correctly install xorg-server.I would like to know if anybody can run Gentoo/BSD as main OS.

[berferd]

I did not have problems like you during installation. Problems started with installation of the applications. Up to now I was not able correctly install xorg-server.I would like to know if anybody can run Gentoo/BSD as main OS.

There's a bug open on this:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205149

[tech_your_future]

[*] groff configure complains about g++ not being smart enough to compile it (what the heck???)

Is it like this?

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checking that C++ compiler can compile simple program... yes
checking that C++ static constructors and destructors are called... no
configure: error: a working C++ compiler is required

I am facing this error while building groff. Also, i have mysqld, nmap and bunch of other apps segfaulting. I copied a simple C++ program from a friend, it compiles fine but then I get segfault while running it.
Here's the output of g++ -v

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Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.2.3/work/gcc-4.2.3/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2/gcc-bin/4.2.3 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2/4.2.3/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2/4.2.3 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2/4.2.3/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2/4.2.3/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2/4.2.3/include/g++-v4 --host=i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2 --build=i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2 --disable-altivec --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libgcj --with-arch=i686 --enable-languages=c,c++,treelang --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.3 (Gentoo 4.2.3 p1.0)

[baigsabeeh]

Use actual FreeBSD. Gentoo/FreeBSD is a mess.

[gringo]

Use actual FreeBSD. Gentoo/FreeBSD is a mess.

i agree ... btw, is the projekt still alive ?

cheers

[dav_it]

Use actual FreeBSD. Gentoo/FreeBSD is a mess.

i agree ... btw, is the projekt still alive ?

cheers

The project isn't a mess, and yeah, it's still alive. The team is doing an huge work to port g/fbsd to 7.0. you can find more infos on my blog http://davzero.wordpress.com or looking at gentoo-bsd ml. If you want to help or get more informations send a mail to bsd@g.o or drop two lines in #gentoo-bsd (Freenode network)

Regards

dav