freebsd support

[Jimmy2099]

FreeBSD support, docker couldn't support BSD. can buildpacks support freebsd?

[natalieparellano]

At one point we had a PR to the lifecycle to add this support - @quantumsheep do you have any insights here?

[jjbustamante]

I think @natalieparellano was pointing to these pull requests in the lifecycle:

• 1087
• 1271

[jjbustamante]

Additionally, recently we added support for s390x and ppc64le I think this could be fix in a similar way, at least for having a pack binary

[gogolok]

My personal summary for the current FreeBSD support will (hopefully) be published soon in the 'official' quarterly status report: https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/tree/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/buildpacks.adoc

Excerpt:

...
With these steps, it is now possible to compile `lifecycle` under FreeBSD.

The next steps are:

- Provide missing FreeBSD functionality to `lifecycle`.
- Further investigate FreeBSD as a build target in `lifecycle`.
- Investigate and get the tool `pack` to compile and run under FreeBSD.
- Provide `lifecycle` and/or `pack` via FreeBSD ports.
- Investigate the idea of FreeBSD buildpacks for some popular languages, similar to link:https://paketo.io/[paketo buildpacks].

An update to the second bullet point provides https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gogo/113842976032118760 .