From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 29 9: 9:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64DC637B698 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:09:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp246.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.246]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eATH9VC22114; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:09:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01D4D419B1A4D111A30400805FE65B13070AC0E7@nmrusdunsx1.nielsenmedia.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:09:49 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Gray, David W." Subject: RE: more make release Cc: FreeBSD Current list Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message