Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 15:55:27 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw@unete.cl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Installing CURRENT from STABLE Message-ID: <20070526195527.GA53106@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200705260825.47577.dmw@unete.cl> References: <200705252304.05088.dmw@unete.cl> <20070526032226.GA18221@xor.obsecurity.org> <200705260825.47577.dmw@unete.cl>
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On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 08:25:47AM -0400, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > On Friday 25 May 2007 23:22:26 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks, but I get compile time errors. Am I missing something? > or it's normal to get "file not found errors"? Only if you are missing some files. Kris
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