Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 07:02:11 -0400 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Michael Ross <gmx@ross.cx>, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, uki <ukaszg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src? Message-ID: <45.0C.29097.33EF5CF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>
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>From Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>: > For ports, I would would normally say that you want SRC_BASE. However, > that's for building ports, not running them, so I may be missing the > point. That may be what I need. I would be building ports. For running ports, source code wouldn't come into play. I couldn't find this, but just found it in /BETA1/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk I installed FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 to this partition, mounted now as /BETA1, but might want to upgrade this to 10-CURRENT. I noticed a BSDSRCDIR in NetBSD pkgsrc, ported to other mostly (quasi)-Unix OSes as well as NetBSD. >> I may also want to build 10-CURRENT from 9-STABLE system without giving up the 9-STABLE source tree; I would need both source trees, but then after the >> first successful build of 10-CURRENT, I could use that to build updated versions. > MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX can do this, but in my case I would move the original > /usr/obj tree out of the way to avoid damaging it by mistake. I might put 10-CURRENT source tree in /BETA1/usr/src, forever overwriting 9.0-BETA1 source tree, then could set MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX to /BETA1/usr/obj, or is that not necessary? >From "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx>: > I often use nullfs for this kind of thing: > mount -t nullfs /where/your/sources/are /usr/src > mount -t nullfs /some/dir/for/objects /usr/obj I hadn't thought of that, but now I need to check this out on "mount" man page. >From uki <ukaszg@gmail.com>: > Don't know if that will help in Your case, but I just softlink my > /usr/local/src-stable to /usr/src - never had any issues. > Cheers, > ??ukasz Gruner I thought of that (symbolic link: ln -s) as something to fall back on if I don't find something more elegant. There might have been some characters in your name that xterm couldn't understand; I need something better (mlterm?) Tom
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