Installing CURRENT from STABLE

[Daniel Molina Wegener]

On Friday 25 May 2007 23:22:26 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:04:04PM -0400, Daniel Molina 
Wegener wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >    I want to contribute with FreeBSD.
> >
> >    I have installed STABLE on one disk, I use STABLE to
> > work, but I want to install CURRENT to begin with small
> > contributions with code.
> >
> >    How can I install CURRENT from my STABLE installation, I
> > mean work on FreeBSD using the STABLE install and test the
> > CURRENT install on a diferent partition. Can I do that?
> >
> >    I've tried to get working CURRENT, but I get compile
> > errors. On STABLE I have gcc 4.2 to compile CURRENT and a
> > shell script that does the next job:
> > -----------------------8<----------------------------------
> >---- export MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX="/work/FreeBSD/obj"
> > export PREFIX="/work/FreeBSD"
> > export CC="/usr/local/bin/gcc42"
> > export CXX="/usr/local/bin/g++42"
> > export DESTDIR="/work/FreeBSD/build"
> > export TARGET="i386"
> > make $*
> > -----------------------8<----------------------------------
> >----
> >
> >     I'm right?, or I need to know something more?
>
> You are not right; FreeBSD bootstraps its own compiler, and
> in fact cannot usually be built with a non-standard compiler
> (even if it is based on the same gcc version) because of
> FreeBSD extensions.
>
> Just build world as you normally would.

  Thanks, but I get compile time errors. Am I missing something? 
or it's normal to get "file not found errors"?

>
> Kris
> [SNIP]

Regards,
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