Re: Cross compiling Kernel with all options enabled and compiler wrapper

On 7/10/25 2:16 AM, Nando Schenk wrote:
> For this, I want to compile the NetBSD kernel with all options enabled 
> so that there is as much as possible to analyze (akin to the 
> allyesconfig for Linux). I was able to compile the kernel (including 
> userland) on my Linux machine using build.sh, but I am still not 
> completely understanding how the build process works.

Note that some options may be mutually exclusive and some code paths are 
alternatives, so a single configuration will not give full coverage even 
for a specific platform.

> Also, I need the compiler to give me an intermediate representation of 
> the kernel for the tools that I want to test. This can be accomplished 
> by gllvm, which means the toolchain needs to use a compiler wrapper 
> instead of the freshly built clang directly. As far as I understand it, 
> build.sh needs to be modified in order to use a different binary as the 
> clang compiler.

Would the compilation database be good enough?

https://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/json.diff

is an old patch to automatically create fragments during compilation. A 
full compilation db file can be obtained from that with minimal 
post-processing.

Joerg