How to build pfSense on FreeBSD V10

_Adrian_

Hey guys…
I just got some of the free time i wanted so bad LOL ( Got laid off )

Which now gives me time to thinker a bit :P
NOW...

I searched around and only found this: https://devwiki.pfsense.org/BuildingpFSense…
But it seems a bit "ancient" LOL

and a deeper search was fruitfull
http://devwiki.pfsense.org/DevelopersBootStrapAndDevIso

Any updates or hints ?

_Adrian_

This is a bit of a rough "sketch" but I'm keeping track of everything as I go along…

NOTES:

On FreeBSD10 you have to install the following packages manually

GIT

#pkg install git

FASTEST_CVSUP

#pkg install fastest_cvsup

Next step:

mkdir /home

mkdir /home/pfsense

git clone git://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-tools.git tools

git clone git://github.com/pfsense/freesbie2.git freesbie2

_Adrian_

And a wall….

No files present in the directories or for that matter any files in the folders

_Adrian_

@_Adrian_:

mkdir /home

mkdir /home/pfsense

git clone git://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-tools.git tools

git clone git://github.com/pfsense/freesbie2.git freesbie2

Got it !!!
Make sure you are in # /home/pfsense and not in # /root !!

Moving along…

_Adrian_

And stuck again…
https://devwiki.pfsense.org/DevelopersBootStrapAndDevIso#hn_4._Ensure_FreeBSD_sources_are_present

Even after editing /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
From:

*default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org

To:

*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org

I still get the following Error :

Name Lookup failure for "fastest_cvsup -c tld -q": hostname nor servname provided, or not known

Will retry at xx:xx:xx (time)

_Adrian_

Quickly rolled up my sleeves and started into seeing if its my network or the host…
And what do you know :P

C:\Users\Admin>ping cvsup.freebsd.org

Pinging bsn0-0.edmz.cwu.edu [72.233.193.64] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 72.233.193.64:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

I guess this ones down :/
Next…

C:\Users\Admin>ping cvsup3.us.freebsd.org

Pinging xyz.csail.mit.edu [128.31.0.28] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 128.31.0.28: bytes=32 time=651ms TTL=51
Reply from 128.31.0.28: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=51
Reply from 128.31.0.28: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=51
Reply from 128.31.0.28: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 128.31.0.28:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 108ms, Maximum = 651ms, Average = 244ms

Looks like I have some editing to do again…
Hope this works :/

_Adrian_

And still nothing >:(

DEV / MODS…

Any input ???

stephenw10

@_Adrian_:

I just got some of the free time i wanted so bad LOL ( Got laid off )

Ouch! :(

So you're trying to build 2.2 effectively?

It's not possible to build 2.1 on top of FreeBSD 10. Most of the work that has gone into the 2.2 branch is to allow it to be built on 10.

Not that I've tried myself of course! ;)

Steve

_Adrian_

Yeah… I'm trying my FreeBsd skills out LOL

I figured and try my hand at a 2.2 build with the OFED Stack

_Adrian_

Well… some progress is made !
Last night I was too tired and hopped up on Mountain Dew Voltage LOL

I was using

csup -h fastest_cvsup -c tld -q /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile

This morning i looked closer to the Wiki and saw this…

Some ports require sources in /usr/src to build correctly.

So instead really should have been using this

csup -h fastest_cvsup -c tld -q /usr/src

Now I get the following message

Release not specified for collection "s"

I guess im on the right track …
Moving on and omitting the message for now LOL

_Adrian_

Well.. so far so good…
I choose the RELENG_8_3 :D

Right now its at :

Obtaining FreeBSD Sources RELENG_8_3-supfile. . .

Keeping fingers crossed and hopeing it works !!

stephenw10

Trying and failing is better than not trying at all. You've got me beat already. :)

Steve

_Adrian_

DONE !!
Woohohohooo

Not a single error too !!

Moving onto Step 5.2A…

Now on 5.2B

_Adrian_

Ugh… errors galore !!!

However...

Plan for failure
It is expected that the first try to build the ports, and the first try to build an ISO will fail, but subsequent attempts work. This is because certain parts expect files or binaries to be present that get built on the first run but not fully used until the second. This may get fixed eventually, but because the workaround is easy (just run the build again), it's not a priority.

I ran it again and still full of errors…
guessing thats due to V10 but i mainly think its because of this first initial error:

Operation ./build_pfPorts.sh has started at Sun Jan 26 12:26:30 MST
–> Preparing for pfPorts build buildports.RELENG_2_1
--> WARNING! We are about to run make includes.
--> Press CTRL-C to abort this operation. . . . .
==> Starting make includes operation. . .
make: "/usr/pfSensesrc/src/Makefile" line 178: warning : Couldn't read shell's output for "find /usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/sys/param.h -mtime -0s"
make[2]: "/usr/pfSensesrc/src/Makefile" line 178: warning : Couldn't read shell's output for "find /usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/sys/param.h -mtime -0s"
make[2]: "/usr/pfSensesrc/src/Makefile" line 178: warning : Couldn't read shell's output for "find /usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/sys/param.h -mtime -0s"

==> Compiling pfPorts. . .

Executing Build ports.RELENG_2_1
Setting ports List : '/home/pfSense/tools/builder_scripts/../builder_scripts/conf/pfPorts/buildports.RELENG_2_1'
Setting MAKEJ_ports (-j) to ' '
Setting ports make.conf: '/tmp/pfPorts_make.conf'

After this everything is a catastrophe :/

Build [PACKAGE] (filename). . . Failed to build. Error log in /tmp/pfPorts/buildlogs/[PACKAGE]

_Adrian_

After a bit of messing around I got to menu.sh and found that there is an option that's not displayed on the wiki…
RELENG_10_0

Also edited and instead of merging with head I forced it to merge with 8.3
I Will try again...

Right now its at
" Obtaining FreeBSD sources RELENG_10_0-supfile. . . "

A Former User

Thanks for posting your progress on this.

I'm interested in building for freeBSD 10, for the improved Xen support that 10 has.

I just started downloading a v10 ISO to set up a build environment.

_Adrian_

No luck yet…
Just chasing my tail here... I'm pretty close, but something is causing the build to fail.
So will have to keep poking at it until I either figure it out or someone drops in with a few words of wisdom...

phil.davis

After a bit of messing around I got to menu.sh and found that there is an option that's not displayed on the wiki…
RELENG_10_0

Since FreeBSD 10 and pfSense 2.2 is brand new, the detail of the build instructions in the WiKi is going to talk about (FreeBSD 8.1 and pfSense 2.0.n) or (FreeBSD 8.3 and pfSense 2.1.n). So you will definitely have to always change anything like that, and use an educated guess to do a similar thing for (FreeBSD 10 and pfSense 2.2). And then work out what underlying stuff has changed in some non-obvious way also (either in FreeBSD itself, or the way it is built for pfSense).
Once the devs actually have a reasonable (FreeBSD 10 and pfSense 2.2) build themselves then I'm sure the WiKi will get updated, and there will be public snapshots.

_Adrian_

Thanks for the input phil.davis !

From what read / heard 2.2 will be built on V9 not on V10.
Mainly I'm after a running OFED stack…

phil.davis

From what read / heard 2.2 will be built on V9 not on V10.

pfSense 2.2 is definitely now based on FreeBSD 10 (there will not be any pfSense for FreeBSD 9).
You have already posted to this thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,69856.0.html - which has a few people interested and waiting for a useable FreeBSD 10 + pfSense 2.2 build to pop out.