From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 5 02:27:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA29399 for current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 02:27:47 -0700 Received: (from sos@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA29380 ; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 02:27:44 -0700 Message-Id: <199510050927.CAA29380@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I get started? To: george@moa.cc.monash.edu.au (George Scott) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 02:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510050810.SAA11430@moa.cc.monash.edu.au> from "George Scott" at Oct 5, 95 06:10:57 pm From: sos@freebsd.org Reply-to: sos@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1051 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply to George Scott who wrote: > > Sorry for the newbie question; if this is the wrong place please point me... Your'e welcome... > I am trying to build freebsd-current in the hope that I'll learn something > and maybe contribute something back to the cause, but I'm not getting very > far past square one. > > I have a machine running 2.1.0-950726-SNAP. I have mounted a disk over > /usr/src and have run all the deltas through ctm in that directory. Now > what do I do? > > My guess was that I just do something like > > cd /usr/src; make world DESTDIR=xxx > > but this fails pretty quickly. Do you have a /usr/obj directory with enough space to hold all the .o files + libs + compiled programs ?? If this is OK, a simple make world in /usr/src should do the trick... If this fails we need more information on what is going wrong -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@login.dknet.dk) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time