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@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ predictable location on where to pick up the resulting binary, you almost certainly want to set the scratch directory. ```sh -env PACKAGE=YES LOCALBASE=/usr python3 ${WRKSRC}/bin/bootstrap.py ${WRKSRC} ${WRKDIR}/just-work +env PACKAGE=YES LOCALBASE=/usr python3 ${SRCDIR}/bin/bootstrap.py ${SRCDIR} ${BUILDDIR} ``` If some dependencies should nevertheless be built from source (typically @@ -131,20 +131,21 @@ a JSON list. # Installing `just-mr` -In order to set up multi-repository configurations, usually the tools `just-mr` -is used. It also a useful launcher for `just`. - -This tool is Python3 script located at `bin/just-mr.py` and can simply be put -into an appropriate location in `PATH`. - -There is also a compiled version of `just-mr`, which is faster, -works in parallel, and has additional features. It can be obtained -by building the target `["", "installed just-mr"]`. That target -can be built using the bootstrapped `just` and the Python3 script -`bin/just-mr.py`. Alternatively, the bootstrapping process leaves -in its work directory a file `repo-conf.json` with the repository -configuration and a file `build-conf.json` with the build configuration -used. Those can be used to build `just-mr` using the bootstrapped -`just`. This approach is preferable for package building, as the -same dependencies (typically the ones provided by the system) are -used as for building `just. +In order to set up multi-repository configurations, usually the tool `just-mr` +is used. It is also a useful launcher for `just`. + +This tool can be obtained by building the target `["", "installed just-mr"]`. +That target can be built using the previously bootstrapped `just` together with +the cache directory `.just`, the repository configuration `repo-conf.json`, and +the build configuration `build-conf.json` left by the bootstrapping process in +its build directory. This makes use of already existing cache entries and the +same dependencies (typically the ones provided by the system for package builds) +as for building `just`. + +```sh +${BUILDDIR}/out/bin/just install \ + --local-build-root ${BUILDDIR}/.just \ + -C ${BUILDDIR}/repo-conf.json \ + -c ${BUILDDIR}/build-conf.json \ + -o ${BUILDDIR}/out/ 'installed just-mr' +``` |