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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 1996 02:02:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        alexis@ww.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Making serious use of FreeBSD...
Message-ID:  <199602051002.CAA25087@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602050825.SAA07131@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 5, 96 06:55:15 pm

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> > 		/src/FreeBSD
> > 		/src/FreeBSD/current
> > 		/src/FreeBSD/stable
> > 		/src/FreeBSD/sup
> > 
> > 	The appropriate sup instances gets appropriate version into
> > appropriate directories. :-) How do I have more than one version
> > compiled simultaneously on one machine (one filesystem)? I could
> > make current/obj and stable/obj directories but how do I tell
> > each collection to compile into the appropriate places?
> 
> Not easily.  Whilst the directory structures keep out of each other's way,
> a world build will still clobber your standard libraries and includes.
> You really need two machines 8(
 Well you can do what I do and have a separate sub-tree
to which I chroot, after populating it with the appropriate utilities
then I upgrade within that sub-tree by doing "make world".

seems to work ok..




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