make buildworld 6.x on 7.x?

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 23 12:27:15 PST 2008


Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to do a ''make buildworld buildkernel'' of the FreeBSD 
> 6.x series sources on a FreeBSD 7.x machine and then install them onto a 
> FreeBSD 6.x machine?

Yes, I did this a few minutes ago in fact :)  No special procedures are 
necessary, world builds are already suitably isolated from the host 
system for this to work.

Kris



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