Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:51:08 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: beantaxi@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel build failure - on joy.sh? Message-ID: <200312181751.08034.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20031219012103.9727.qmail@web40405.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031219012103.9727.qmail@web40405.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday 18 December 2003 05:21 pm, The Bean wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently updated my source to 4.9-Stable from 4.2-Release. > I did everything according the Handbook, and it seems to be > working fine. > > I'm now trying to enable the kernel for firewalls. I made a copy of > GENERIC & made the attendant changes. > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=MyNewfile works fine. > > make installkernel KERNCONF=MyNewfile fails, with this message: > > install: /usr/src/sys/modules/joy/joy.sh: No such file or directory > > Googling on this, I found two cases. One guy got no responses. The other > got one response which said "If I had to guess, you updated the sources > but were only building the kernel. Don't do that." > > True, I updated my source, but I also did a buildworld on that source, > and actually built a new kernel as part of that process (as recommended > by the handbook). > > Does anyone know what the problem might be? Also, doing man joy > (tee hee) tells me that joy.sh is used to load the joystick module. I > don't care about the joystick, so can I just disable this? > Joy.sh was retired but the Makefile still refers to it as an afterinstall option. The joy.sh script was never removed from my /usr/src by cvsup. You could grab joy.sh from the attic. The script that I still have, simply does "kldload joy". Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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