Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:24:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Jeffrey Bouquet <jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "proper way" or "unworkable idea" ? Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1506300822380.22210@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20150630063654.GV96349@funkthat.com> References: <E1Z9WxI-0006i4-2Y@rmm6prod02.runbox.com> <20150630063654.GV96349@funkthat.com>
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Jeffrey Bouquet wrote this message on Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:10 -0700: > > If I've a spare /mnt/usr/src , it seems buildworld quite > > soon fails, where it otherwise may succeed in /usr/src. Any CLI parameters or > > the build system is hardcoded enough so that there will always be problems? > > Doing a buildworld from a source tree not located in /usr/src works > and I do it all the time... There is nothing special, simple > buildworld just works... Indeed. There is a slight catch if you want to perform installworld and the upgrade procedure from that location, namely that the -m argument to mergemaster is needed, but the buildworld itself just works. -Ben Kaduk
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