[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 at twc.com 
> <mailto:mueller6723 at twc.com>> 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
>

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