questions about building releng_6

[Z.C.B.]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:17:13 +0300
Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:29:10AM -0600, Z.C.B. wrote:
> > I was just looking at building releng_6 on a releng_5 box. What I
> > am wondering about is how to specify a location other
> > than /usr/obj and
> 
> Just set the MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX variable in the environment to the
> desired path, and the build system will use it instead of /usr/obj.
> Keep in mind that you cannot set it on the make command line or in
> make.conf, it must be set in the environment.  Also note that you
> still can use /usr/obj if the RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 sources are at
> different locations, like /usr/src and /usr/src-6, because the
> binaries will be built in /usr/obj/usr/src and /usr/obj/usr/src-6,
> respectively.
> 
> > once I get it built, how do I do a install to a different path.
> 
> Just set DESTDIR (can be either an environment or make variable)
> to the destination path.
> 
> > The 6.0 release has a bit of a problem booting on the board I
> > have and was just looking at trying out releng_6 and seeing how
> > it would go.
> 
> Note here that in order to get a new functional 6.x system while
> keeping your 5.x system, you'll have to install 6.x to a free slice
> or disk labelled, newfs'd, and mounted, e.g., under /mnt.  Unlike
> with some other operating systems, you cannot easily have several
> working FreeBSD installations in the same file tree: each FreeBSD
> installation needs a tree of its own: /, /boot, /etc, /bin, /usr,
> and all that.

Yeah. Going to be installing it to a gmirrored drive that all ready
sliced up for this. :)

Thanks for the info on this.