Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 23:22:26 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw@unete.cl> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing CURRENT from STABLE Message-ID: <20070526032226.GA18221@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200705252304.05088.dmw@unete.cl> References: <200705252304.05088.dmw@unete.cl>
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On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:04:04PM -0400, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to contribute with FreeBSD. > > I have installed STABLE on one disk, I use STABLE to work, > but I want to install CURRENT to begin with small contributions > with code. > > How can I install CURRENT from my STABLE installation, I mean > work on FreeBSD using the STABLE install and test the CURRENT > install on a diferent partition. Can I do that? > > I've tried to get working CURRENT, but I get compile errors. > On STABLE I have gcc 4.2 to compile CURRENT and a shell script > that does the next job: > -----------------------8<-------------------------------------- > export MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX="/work/FreeBSD/obj" > export PREFIX="/work/FreeBSD" > export CC="/usr/local/bin/gcc42" > export CXX="/usr/local/bin/g++42" > export DESTDIR="/work/FreeBSD/build" > export TARGET="i386" > make $* > -----------------------8<-------------------------------------- > > I'm right?, or I need to know something more? You are not right; FreeBSD bootstraps its own compiler, and in fact cannot usually be built with a non-standard compiler (even if it is based on the same gcc version) because of FreeBSD extensions. Just build world as you normally would. Kris
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