From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 13 03:27:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B98F16A420 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:27:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vvelox@vvelox.net) Received: from mail07.powweb.com (mail07.powweb.com [66.152.97.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E25A43D48 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:27:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vvelox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.vulpes (24-119-205-114.cpe.cableone.net [24.119.205.114]) by mail07.powweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E9B14DD21; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:27:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:36:22 -0600 From: "Z.C.B." To: Yar Tikhiy 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about building releng_6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:27:27 -0000 On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:17:13 +0300 Yar Tikhiy 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.