Date: Tue, 16 Apr 96 17:28:58 MDT From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: kmitch@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Keith Mitchell) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing SRC tree on more than one computer? Message-ID: <199604161530.RAA25224@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199604151620.MAA22034@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>; from "Keith Mitchell" at Apr 15, 96 12:20 pm
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> I want to be able to compile a source tree (-current or -stable) on one
> computer and install it on a bunch of others.
>
> Can I do a "make world" on the compiling computer (in a chrooted-type
> environment) and then mount that on the other computers via NFS and do
> a "make install"?
The simple answer is "it doesn't work like that". If you look at the
"world" target in /usr/src/Makefile, you'll see that it in fact just
invokes a whole lot of other targets:
+ world: hierarchy mk cleandist includes lib-tools libraries tools
+ @echo "--------------------------------------------------------------"
+ @echo " Rebuilding ${DESTDIR} The whole thing"
+ @echo "--------------------------------------------------------------"
+ @echo
+ ${MAKE} depend all install
+ cd ${.CURDIR}/share/man && ${MAKE} makedb
For those of you who have not delved into the dirty innards of make,
this is pretty much equivalent to
+ world: hierarchy mk cleandist includes lib-tools libraries tools depend all install
This means "to make world, make in sequence all the targets that
follow the colon (:)". In particular, cleandist removes everything
(this is why you can't interrupt a make world and resume where you
left off), and at the end it performs a make install.
> Is this possible?? OriIs there a better way of achieving this?? Right now I
> am primarily concerned with -stable, but I would also like know if this
> procedure would need to be different on -current.
I haven't explored all the ramifications (and people tell me there are
some which might bite me), but in my nightly cron jobs I just do a
'make depend all install'. In your case, you might get by with a
'make depend all', leaving the 'make install' for later.
Greg
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