What to Make

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:33:17 -0800
"Cybertime Hostmaster" <hostmaster at cybertime.net> wrote:

> This may be a question for the current list, but I thought I would start
> here and see.

Not for newbies@, imho

[..] 
 
> I have hardware that requires the CURRENT tree for driver support.
> 
> When I did a buildworld on my testing box, I ran out of hard drive space.
> So what I have been looking for is a way to download and build less.
> 
> Now, when I do a binary install, I have the option of putting in base,
> compatibity (1x to 4x), crypto, dict, doc, games, info, man, catman,
> profiles, src, ports, local, perl, and xfree.
> 
> When I look at the source tree they are base, contrib, gnu, etc, games,
> include, lib, libexec, release, bin, sbin, scrypto, share, skerb5,
> ssecure, sys, tools, ubin, and usbin.
> 
> This has left me at a loss.
> 
> Since the choices are not the same, how do I compile just a minimal
> install?  Obviously someone, somewhere has a list of what goes where, or
> there would be no such thing as a minimal install.
> 
> Does anyone have a link to a FAQ/DOC/README/MAN that lists this
> information?  If one exists, I have missed it in the last few weeks of
> looking.

See:
/usr/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf
make.conf(5)


/usr/src/Makefile
/usr/src/Makefile.inc1


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