From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 29 10:55:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA06116 for current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06111 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA31348; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 13:55:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 13:55:42 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9512291855.AA31348@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where's the earth-shattering KABOOM? In-Reply-To: <199512282333.XAA04592@peedub.gj.org> References: <199512282146.QAA04169@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <199512282333.XAA04592@peedub.gj.org> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I haven't tried it out, but I'll bet that this will fail miserably > if you do "DESTDIR=/foo/bar make world" This has never worked, to my knowledge, and was never intended to work in its current form. If you want to do something like that, then you'll need to do the same sort of work as is done by `make release' in building a chroot environment and then running a `make world' there. `make world' is more useful as a VM/IO regression test than as a way to build a working system. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant