On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:10 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> i encounter this error when building the (RAMDISK_CD) distrib kernel:
> usage: maketz.sh DESTDIR
...
> maybe the method i have been using to build distrib is outdated. currently i 
> do:
> # (cd /usr/src/distrib/special/libstubs && make)
> # cd /usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdisk_cd && make
> which i got some years ago from one of these lists. is this still the 
> preferred
> method?

I don't think that was ever correct.  The procedure for building a
release is documented in release(8).

(Why does that procedure install into a clean directory and assemble
the release out of that?  To absolutely guarantee that it cannot pick
up a file left over in the running install from a previous version.)


Philip Guenther

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