Re: [ros-dev] Installing ReactOS to a folder

[Aleksey Bragin]

I think it's possible to find my rants about that here in ros-dev, and 
there were some replies too which tried to explain why using make 
install such a bad idea.

Regards,
Aleksey

On 09.12.2014 15:07, David Quintana (gigaherz) wrote:
>   Back in the days when we used the old rbuild build
> system, we did have 
>  a "make install" that did just what you describe, but the system was 
>  lost in the upgrade to cmake, and none of the current developers wants 
>  to reimplement it. If any of you want to try, it would be welcome by many.
>
>  On 9 December 2014 at 07:25, Thomas Mueller <mueller6723(a)twc.com 
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
> >   Is there a build command to install ReactOS to a
> > folder. 
>      Something equivalent
> >   to "make install" of good old RBuild
> > days?
> >  I used to install ReactOS on real hardware this way, because it 
>      allowed me to
> >   have more control over the install process (aka
> > control it 
>      completely).
>
> >   Thanks,
> >  João Jerónimo 
>      I've been wondering about that too.
>
>      Perhaps I'm spoiled by the procedures in NetBSD and FreeBSD for
>      building and installing from source code, but I'd like to be able
>      to build ReactOS from source with ROSBE from FreeBSD, NetBSD or
>      Linux, or even from Wine, and install directly to USB stick or old
>      IDE hard drive in a Sabrent enclosure connecting by USB 2.0
>      (making it effectively a USB hard drive).
>
>      That would save burning CDs which would become obsolete with every
>      new build from updated source, and might not even boot, as was the
>      case with downloaded 0.3.15 installation ISO.
>
>      It would also be good, with "make installworld" or "make
> install",
>      to be able to control the installation target and not mess up the
>      wrong disk.
>
>      Tom
>