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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Building base source
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Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> writes:

> I am experimenting with building the base source.
>
> What do I need to set (which knobs) to be able to build the base
> source and have the binaries built into a home directory.
>
> The source will be in /usr/src but I want all the binaries and all
> other files produced by the build to goto in
> /usr/home/FreeBSD/base/target.
>
> Will it be a copy of want is installed in the / (root) filesystem?

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html