[Coco] Making custom boot disks from nitros9 cvs tree

[Boisy Pitre]

On Mar 15, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Michael Furman wrote:

> The build system in Unix land is different than using mb on a live  
> coco, so I just want to make sure this sounds correct:
>
> Suppose for example I wanted to make a boot disk that has the emudsk  
> drivers for working with VHD drives. To make a custom boot disk from  
> the nitros9 source tree, I would edit the makefile in $NITROS9DIR/ 
> level2/coco3/bootfiles to add $NITROS9DIR/3rdparty/modules/emudsk/ 
> h0.dd etc. and do a top-level make dsk from $NITROS9DIR/level2/coco3.

That is correct.

>  How much trouble is it to add my own target to the makefiles so I  
> can leave the default ones alone?   If there's no quick answer I can  
> hack it up myself but just curious... i can just delete the makefile  
> and get a new copy from CVS if it gets messed up i suppose.

It's a bit of work, and I would recommend naming your makefiles  
something that wouldn't clash with the existing makefiles in case you  
want to preserve the work you've done.

Good to see someone getting into the project using the toolshed tools!

>
>
> Thanks.
> --Mikey
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