Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:36:22 -0600 From: "Z.C.B." <vvelox@vvelox.net> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about building releng_6 Message-ID: <20060212213622.3c0877ac@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <20060212201713.GC85260@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20060212012910.60994828@vixen42.vulpes> <20060212201713.GC85260@comp.chem.msu.su>
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:17:13 +0300 Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:29:10AM -0600, Z.C.B. wrote: > > I was just looking at building releng_6 on a releng_5 box. What I > > am wondering about is how to specify a location other > > than /usr/obj and > > Just set the MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX variable in the environment to the > desired path, and the build system will use it instead of /usr/obj. > Keep in mind that you cannot set it on the make command line or in > make.conf, it must be set in the environment. Also note that you > still can use /usr/obj if the RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 sources are at > different locations, like /usr/src and /usr/src-6, because the > binaries will be built in /usr/obj/usr/src and /usr/obj/usr/src-6, > respectively. > > > once I get it built, how do I do a install to a different path. > > Just set DESTDIR (can be either an environment or make variable) > to the destination path. > > > The 6.0 release has a bit of a problem booting on the board I > > have and was just looking at trying out releng_6 and seeing how > > it would go. > > Note here that in order to get a new functional 6.x system while > keeping your 5.x system, you'll have to install 6.x to a free slice > or disk labelled, newfs'd, and mounted, e.g., under /mnt. Unlike > with some other operating systems, you cannot easily have several > working FreeBSD installations in the same file tree: each FreeBSD > installation needs a tree of its own: /, /boot, /etc, /bin, /usr, > and all that. Yeah. Going to be installing it to a gmirrored drive that all ready sliced up for this. :) Thanks for the info on this.
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