Building 4.x releases on 5.x and 6.x
Maxim Sobolev
sobomax at portaone.com
Wed Dec 29 14:45:24 PST 2004
Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Hi Maxim,
>
> One thing you'll definitely need is to install the Perl port in
> LOCAL_SCRIPT. Mounting /dev (much like the RELENG_5 and HEAD
> versions of release/Makefile do) will also be needed. Note that
> you should be using the 4.x version of release/Makefile* to
> start "make release", and use WORLDDIR to point to your
> /usr/src, something like this:
>
> cd /tmp
> cvs co -rRELENG_4 -l release
> cd /usr/src/release
> make -f /tmp/Makefile release ...
Do you mean that I need to have 5.x/6.x in /usr/src pointed to by
WORLDDIR, while 4.x in /tmp/src and start making release in
/tmp/src/release?
I am not sure about perl, why do I need it? Isn't initial make
buildworld expected to build it and install into pristive chroot'ed tree?
-Maxim
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