Re: 2010-03 snapshot

* Message by -Raymond Toy- from Tue 2010-03-16:
> On 3/16/10 6:34 PM, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> > I built this snapshot successfully (as far as I can tell) on 
> > Linux and Solaris. I just wonder whether there is a way provided 
> > to install into a specified directory. I simply made distribution 
> > tarballs now and unpacked them in the desired location.
> >   
> That's great!
> 
> You can install the result via
> 
> src/tools/make-dist.sh -I <installdir>
> 
> Use the -S option to install sources too.   This require GNU tar and
> needs to be named tar.  Set the ennvar GTAR to the GNU tar program if
> it's not named tar.  (I need this for Solaris builds where GNU tar is
> named gtar.)

'tar' isn't GNU tar on my Linux neither. So it is important to 
have such an envvar or similar.

Installation worked (on Linux at least) also with the latest 
snapshot.

> > Some irregularities I noticed when making these tarballs under 
> > Linux (not under Solaris):
> >
> > $ src/tools/make-dist.sh build-4 version x86 os
> >
> > Creating distribution for x86 os