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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:36:33 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        gmarco@masternet.it (Gianmarco Giovannelli)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange idea on doing make world...
Message-ID:  <199606270736.JAA14595@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <31D1D59E.41C67EA6@masternet.it> from Gianmarco Giovannelli at "Jun 27, 96 00:28:14 am"

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> I was not able to do a make world in my laptop because new errors always jumped out
> ... So I do a rm -r src and copied all the /usr/src from another Freebsd box that had
> no problems in doing make world....
> Then I do a simple make install from the new /usr/source and everything went fine ...
> 
> Now I ask myself if I can do an optimization of this procedure... 
> It seems to me not efficient to do 3 make world on 3 different machine ...
> 
> What's happen if I create /usr/src as symlink at the /usr/src of the remote machine
> that does make world and then I do only make install on the other machines ? 
> 
> Obviusly all the 3 machines are running the same version of Freebsd 
> 
> May I do it ?

I'm often doing the following:

Make one machine an NFS server (the one that builds world).
/etc/exports
/usr -alldirs -maproot=0 your machine list

On the clients
mount server:/usr/src /usr/src
mount server:/usr/obj /usr/obj

and make install on the clients.

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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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