DragonFly BSD now builds with bmake. Here are some notes...

John Marino dragonflybsd at marino.st
Mon Oct 29 03:12:32 PDT 2012


On 10/28/2012 17:15, Chris Turner wrote:
> On 10/28/12 08:42, John Marino wrote:
>
>  > I believe it is possible to use "quickworld", but it will be trickier.
>  > You would probably have to do something like "make quickworld; make
>  > installworld" and then when you want to update kernel, you won't
>  > be able to use "make buildkernel". You'd have to use the command
>  > "make nativekernel" for each new kernel until the next buildworld
>  > is executed.
>
> Is this note just related to the update process?
> e.g. after your base is updated to the new make, quickworld works again?
>

Right, a full buildworld + installworld will bootstrap bmake and the 
helper files  It's actually the "config" binary that breaks quickworld.

After doing buildworld + installworld once, everything should work as 
before.


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