can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

[Jonathan Horne]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 13:16, illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:
> > is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server?
> > or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same
> > machine?
>
> buildworld and buildkernel targets are
> fairly sophisticated.
>
> The /usr/obj tree corresponds to the source
> directory, so if you have your 5.5 sources in
> /src/5.5
> and your 6.1 sources in
> /src/6.1 (or /usr/src/6.1 for that matter)
>
> the world(s) would be built in
> /usr/obj/src/5.5/ and /usr/obj/src/6.1/
> repsectively. (Or /usr/obj/usr/src/6.1)
>
> If the purpose is to buildworld on one
> fast machine and then export it to slower
> machines on th' network, this works
> admirably well.

thank you!!  this was the exact hint i was hoping for!

cheers,
jonathan