[OmniOS-discuss] Building OmniOS master branch

[Dan McDonald]

On Sep 3, 2014, at 9:56 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 09:33:27PM -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
> 
>> You can/should be able to.  Just use /opt/onbld/bin/nightly with an
>> appropriate env file.  Want me to share one with the class?
> 
> Hmm, I was trying to build it per
> http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/BuildInstructions, using "cd illumos;
> ./build.sh", which doesn't sound like what you're describing. So, to
> build just the latest illumos bits, you should check out illumos-omnios
> directly and build it using the upstream scripts rather than the omnios
> build scripts?

That's what I do.  And if you look at the master branch's tools/OmniOS-on-demand.sh, that's what it does too.

> Yes, an example would be appreciated, or even better a new section on
> that wiki page labeled "Building the latest illumos-omnios on a stable
> release" :)?

I'll see what I can do.  There MAY be flag-day issues I'm forgetting, however.

I'm fighting some fires right now trying to get ready for 012's release.  I'll be very high-latency for a bit.

Dan