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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Subject: Re: Alpha Install
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Doug Rabson, On 29-Aug-98 you wrote:

...

>  I have never tried moving the compile directory around.  I always build
>  inside a complete FreeBSD source tree.  Always use 'make -m
>  ...src//share/mk' to pick up the right makefiles (already mentioned).
>  Maybe I will just start putting up GENERIC kernels for people to try on
>  freefall.

This will be most useful.  Cold bootstrappiung an O/S is always a challenge
one tries to repeat unnecessarily :-)

I hope we can get soon to the point where make release works.  This will
allow me to routinely build releases and post them here.  You guys are so
busy with important stuff.

Simon


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