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Building binaries on FreeBSD
Marcin Cieślak edited this page Apr 22, 2015
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FreeBSD binaries are built using Poudriere, a FreeBSD-specific tool to build binary packages using a clean-room environment. Poudriere:
- Creates and manages lightweight virtual environments (jails) for i386 and amd64
- Keeps virtual environments up to date
- Manages the building process, logging and packaging. It can expose results via the HTTP interface.
Another tools being used is portshaker which helps to merge different FreeBSD port trees and keep them up to date. A FreeBSD port tree describes how applications should be built into binary packages and installed. This is the standard way of building third-party software on FreeBSD.
#Custom ports tree
Since node-sass and many npm packages are not yet part of the official FreeBSD ports tree, we maintain a custom ports tree which contains the necessary elements. That's why we need portshaker to combine the official tree (containing python, compilers, node) and the custom tree.