Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:02:00 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <craig.williamson@ericsson.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation question Message-ID: <20020308100200.A89359@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <A238222A1695D311B41300508B102DC89EAB68@enzwnnt001.epa.ericsson.se>; from craig.williamson@ericsson.co.nz on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 07:18:33AM %2B1100 References: <A238222A1695D311B41300508B102DC89EAB68@enzwnnt001.epa.ericsson.se>
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On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 07:18:33AM +1100, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> When you are installing FreeBSD onto an i386 box, is there any way
> to build the packages from source, rather than by binary packages. Does the
> installer do this, or is there a version of FreeBSD for i386 available that
> can do this. I've tried 'Linux From Scratch' and 'Gentoo' and want to try
> building FreeBSD from source as well. Any sugggestions? Cheers.
If you're talking about using 3rd party applications like apache,
mutt, etc, check out:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
If you're talking about building FreeBSD from sources, check out:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html
The build processes described in the latter section also applies to
the sources supplied on a particular snapshot.
Have a look thru' the Handbook, it provides quite a bit of info
related to FreeBSD in general.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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