On Wed, 9 Apr 1997 13:37:08 -0400 (EDT) 
 Wes Brown <wes@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu> wrote:

 > Have you ever tried to do either of the following on a mostly empty
 > directory structure:
 > 
 > make DESTDIR=/mnt includes && make DESTDIR=/mnt install
 > 
 > or 
 > 
 > DESTDIR=/mnt
 > export DESTDIR
 > make includes && make install

...don't forget:

	cd etc; make DESTDIR=/mnt distrib-dirs

All of the directories need to be in place before you try to put things
there.  See the "build" target in the toplevel Makefile.

 > I have completely made the "current" stuff from about 2 weeks ago shortly
 > after we went m68k8k.  I have a general "root" file system that I pushed to
 > the disk, but the file system that is mounted on /mnt/usr just has a newfs.
 > 
 > Also, could someone provide a list of site specific files?  I have:
 > myname
 > mygate
 > hostname.le0
 > resolv.conf
 > hosts

Check out the "etc" set in src/distrib/sets... that contains the canonical
list.

 > I am writing a perl script that will autoconfigure those files by asking a
 > few questions.  (Yes, I have built perl and bash for the system.  I do not
 > understand why it is not part of the system, but maybe it is because of
 > room)

	- Bash - GP{L,V}

	- Perl - no one has done the work to integrate it.  Several
	  of us (folks w/ NetBSD commit access) have discussed
	  integrating perl for some time

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