At 10:05 PM +0700 3/12/02, Robert Elz wrote:

>note I was using -D / for my build (inside my new environment).  Not
>doing that wouldn't have helped, as if I'd started somewhere clean,
>everything would have worked OK, but then I'd have needed to build it
>all again into / anyway (I don't want to copy from one place to
>another, too many possibilities to mess something up doing that).

I'm glad that you mentioned this as it has always bugged me. The 
readmes strongly suggest that you don't build into /, but then they 
don't give any advice WRT actually getting the new build into the 
active system. With the old build, you could separate the making and 
the installation steps, so that you could ensure that everything went 
smoothly & then install into the active system. With the current 
system, I only see a couple options:

make release, & then unpack the sets as you would for any snapshot update

Do your build with -O and -D...then once that's done, do a -u build 
with -D / which will still churn away for quite awhile before 
installing. Also, IIRC, many archs are still having issues with 
building a release from new tools.

After doing a build with destdirs, is there an easy way to install it 
into an active system? If there is a make install-type option, could 
it be added to BUILDING or a faq somewhere?

Mike
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