Subject: Re: make build
To: None <alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/29/2000 10:54:45
According to Alexander Frolkin:
>
>Does your PPro/200 run NetBSD?

Yes it does.

> In my case, the machine where I want to
>compile runs Winblows :-( ,

Ewwwww ;-)

> and I want to boot NetBSD from the install CD.
>AFAIK, make build doesn't just build the binaries, it also installs them, so
>it needs a place to put them.

True, true.  My case is simpler because I want to update both my main
machine & the lapdog.

> I want to build them in an empty directory and
>then copy everything in that directory to / on the NetBSD machine.
>

cd $DESTDIR && tar cf - . | rsh remote_machine "cd / && tar -x -B -p --unlink -f -"

would probably do the trick off the top of my head.

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