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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:09:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Gray, David W." <David_W_Gray@tvratings.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current list <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: more make release
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001129090949.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <01D4D419B1A4D111A30400805FE65B13070AC0E7@nmrusdunsx1.nielsenmedia.com>

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On 29-Nov-00 Gray, David W. wrote:
> BTW, is it considered a bug or a feature that you MUST use /usr/obj to
> have make release work? I went in circles for quite a while before figuring
> this out (I just didn't have much room in /usr, so was using the make env 
> variable to move the obj tree. It failed in various amusing ways whilst 
> building the crunches - in particular, the generated files for /bin/sh don't
> go to the right places, and the makefile setup is too tangled for my tiny
> brain.)

Feature.  make release starts off by doing an installworld into the chroot'd
area and using that area to do a cleanroom make world from which the release
bits are rolled.

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