Re: building parts of the netbsd source-tree

[Petar Bogdanovic <list+2007%smokva.net@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:08:00PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>   is there a simple way to build only parts of the netbsd source-tree or
>   do I have to use build.sh for every single netbsd-component?
> 
>   I tried a plain `make' in some of the various subdirectories (src/bin/sh
>   and src/usr.bin/awk) but make always failed because it didn't know how
>   to build some dependencies.
> 
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>   Petar
> 
> 
>   P.S. My mk.conf:
> 
>           .undef MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
>           MKUNPRIVED       = yes
>           MAKEVERBOSE      = 1
> 
>           TOOLDIR          = /tmp/netbsd/tools
>           MAKEOBJDIR       = /tmp/netbsd/obj
>           DESTDIR          = /tmp/netbsd/dst
>           RELEASEDIR       = /tmp/netbsd/rel
>           KERNOBJDIR       = /tmp/netbsd
> 
> You either have to set DESTDIR and build things in sequence (which
> build.sh does), or leave DESTDIR unset and use your existing system for
> dependencies.  But you can't use a DESTDIR that isn't yet populated.

Thanks for clarifying -- it seems that I've always misunderstood the
meaning of DESTDIR.