Building and installing base system from source tree in non-default directory

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Thu Nov 15 14:58:12 UTC 2018


Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu at utahime.org> writes:

> Is it possible to checkout base source tree to somewhere other than
> /usr/src and to build and install base system by using it?
>
> If it is possible then are some special settings in /etc/src.conf
> and/or additional arguments of make(1) required? Or do simply going
> to top of source tree and executing 'make buildworld' or other targets
> work fine?

To the best of my recall, it should just work.



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