Subject: Re: cvs update to lastest 1.5 code
To: Wayne Cuddy <wcuddy@crb-web.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/04/2002 14:30:51
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:57:16PM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >
> > > cd distrib/i386/floppies ; make
> >
> > You can't build a distribution that way. You're supposed to do "make
> > release" at the top, with ${DESTDIR} and ${RELEASEDIR} set
> > appropriately. It would be neat if there were a handy way to build
> > just the floppies -- to work on them -- but that probably wouldn't be
> > what you want: the sets lists on the sysinstall floppies are
> > synchronized with the installed files, so whatever floppy you build
> > would be wrong for anything but the sets you build from the same
> > sources, and you can't make those sets until you build the whole tree.
>
> Is there a document somewhere that would detail what each of the make targets
> and environment variables?

The top-level "Makefile", "etc/Makefile", also "share/mk/bsd.README".

Frederick