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authorAndrew Waterman <waterman@cs.berkeley.edu>2015-07-03 00:45:34 -0700
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Describe $DESTDIR and build/installation process
h/t Larry Doolittle
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system. The simplest approach is to create and mount a new disk image with
that property. Make sure that the mount point does not contain spaces.
+This process will start by downloading about 200 MiB of upstream sources, then
+will patch, build, and install the toolchain. If a local cache of the
+upstream sources exists in $(DESTDIR), it will be used; the default location
+is /var/cache/distfiles. Your computer will need about 8 GiB of disk space to
+complete the process.
+
### Installation (Newlib)
To build the Newlib cross-compiler, pick an install path. If you choose,