Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/BUILDING,v rcsdiff: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/BUILDING,v: warning: Unknown phrases like `commitid ...;' are present. retrieving revision 1.36 retrieving revision 1.40 diff -u -p -r1.36 -r1.40 --- src/BUILDING 2003/07/03 05:52:47 1.36 +++ src/BUILDING 2003/07/29 10:07:15 1.40 @@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS FILES Source tree layout - doc/BUILDING.mdoc This document (in -mdoc troff format; the original copy). @@ -234,29 +233,30 @@ CONFIGURATION Default: ``yes'' + MKUNPRIVED Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether an un- + privileged install will occur. The user, group, permissions, + and file flags, will not be set on the installed item; in- + stead the information will be appended to a file called + METALOG in DESTDIR. The contents of METALOG is used during + the generation of the distribution tar files to ensure that + the appropriate file ownership is stored. + + Default: ``no'' + + MKUPDATE Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. Indicates whether all in- + stall operations intended to write to DESTDIR will compare + file timestamps before installing, and skip the install phase + if the destination files are up-to-date. This also has im- + plications on full builds (see next subsection). + + Default: ``no'' + TOOLDIR Directory to hold the host tools, once built. This directory should be unique to a given host system and NetBSD source tree. (However, multiple targets may share the same TOOLDIR; the target-dependent files have unique names.) If unset, a default based on the uname(1) information of the host plat- - form will be created in the .OBJDIR of src/tools. - - Default: Unset. - - UNPRIVED If set, then an unprivileged install will occur. The user, - group, permissions, and file flags, will not be set on the - installed item; instead the information will be appended to a - file called METALOG in DESTDIR. The contents of METALOG is - used during the generation of the distribution tar files to - ensure that the appropriate file ownership is stored. - - Default: Unset. - - UPDATE If set, then all install operations intended to write to - DESTDIR will compare file timestamps before installing, and - skip the install phase if the destination files are up-to- - date. This also has implications on full builds (see next - subsection). + form will be created in the .OBJDIR of src. Default: Unset. @@ -298,6 +298,13 @@ CONFIGURATION Default: ``no'' + MKUPDATE Can be set to ``yes'' or ``no''. If set, then in addi- + tion to the effects described for MKUPDATE=yes above, + this implies the effects of NOCLEANDIR (i.e., ``make + cleandir'' is avoided). + + Default: ``no'' + NBUILDJOBS Now obsolete. Use the make(1) option -j, instead (see below) @@ -324,7 +331,7 @@ CONFIGURATION cause the system include files have changed. However, this option should not be used when updating the entire NetBSD source tree arbitrarily; it is suggested to use - UPDATE in that case. + MKUPDATE=yes in that case. Default: Unset. @@ -336,10 +343,6 @@ CONFIGURATION Note: build.sh will provide a default of releasedir (in the top-level .OBJDIR) unless run in `expert' mode - UPDATE If set, then in addition to the effects described for - UPDATE above, this implies the effects of NOCLEANDIR - (i.e., ``make cleandir'' is avoided). - BUILDING "make" command line options This is only a summary of options available to make(1); only the options @@ -520,15 +523,15 @@ BUILDING -B buildid Set the value of BUILDID to buildid. This will also append the build idenfitier to the name of the ``make'' wrapper script so - that the resulting name is of the form ``nbmake-MACHINE- - BUILDID''. + that the resulting name is of the form + ``nbmake-MACHINE-BUILDID''. -D dest Set the value of DESTDIR to dest. -E Set `expert' mode. This overrides various sanity checks, and allows: DESTDIR does not have to be set to a non-root path for - builds, and UNPRIVED does not have to be set when building as a - non-root user. + builds, and MKUNPRIVED=yes does not have to be set when build- + ing as a non-root user. Note: It is highly recommended that you know what you are doing when you use this option. @@ -538,7 +541,7 @@ BUILDING If you see build failures with -j, please save complete build logs so the failures can be analyzed. - -M obj Set MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX to obj. + -M obj Set MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX to obj. Unsets MAKEOBJDIR. -m mach Set the value of MACHINE to mach. This will also override any value of MACHINE_ARCH in the process environment with a value @@ -569,7 +572,8 @@ BUILDING -O obj Create an appropriate transform macro for MAKEOBJDIR that will place the built object files under obj. For instance, a set- ting of /usr/obj will place build-time files under - /usr/obj/bin, /usr/obj/lib, and so forth. + /usr/obj/bin, /usr/obj/lib, /usr/obj/usr.bin, and so forth. + Unsets MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX. -o Set the value of MKOBJDIRS to ``no''. Otherwise, it will be automatically set to ``yes'' (which is opposite to the default @@ -585,12 +589,13 @@ BUILDING ``make'' will only be rebuilt as needed (when the source files for make(1) change). - -U Set the UNPRIVED variable. + -U Set MKUNPRIVED=yes. - -u Set the UPDATE variable. + -u Set MKUPDATE=yes. -V var=[value] - Set the variable var to value (which is optional). + Set the environment variable var to an optional value. This is + propagated to the nbmake wrapper. -w wrapper Create the nbmake wrapper script (see below) in a custom loca- @@ -598,6 +603,9 @@ BUILDING place the wrapper in PATH automatically. Note that wrapper is the full name of the file, not just a directory name. + -Z var Unset ("zap") the environment variable var. This is propagated + to the nbmake wrapper. + The "nbmake-MACHINE" wrapper script If using the build.sh script to build NetBSD, a nbmake-MACHINE script will be created in TOOLDIR/bin upon the first build to assist in building @@ -606,6 +614,9 @@ BUILDING nbmake-MACHINE can be invoked in lieu of make(1), and will instead call the up-to-date version of ``nbmake'' installed into TOOLDIR/bin with sev- eral key variables pre-set, including MACHINE, MACHINE_ARCH, and TOOLDIR. + build.sh will also set variables specified with -V, and unset variables + specified with -Z. + This script can be symlinked into a directory listed in PATH, or called with an absolute path. @@ -631,9 +642,9 @@ EXAMPLES Using unprivileged mode, build a complete release to DESTDIR and RELEASEDIR directories that build.sh selects (and will display). - UPDATE (-u) is set to prevent the ``make cleandir'', so that if this - is run after example 2, it doesn't need to redo that portion of the - release build. + MKUPDATE=yes (-u) is set to prevent the ``make cleandir'', so that + if this is run after example 2, it doesn't need to redo that portion + of the release build. OBSOLETE VARIABLES NBUILDJOBS Use the make(1) option -j, instead. @@ -652,4 +663,4 @@ HISTORY BUGS A few platforms are not yet using this build system. -NetBSD July 3, 2003 10 +NetBSD July 29, 2003 NetBSD