From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 11:04:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7993716A40E for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:04:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E954B13C4E8 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:04:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l2FB4aTm095114; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:04:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id l2FB4apP095113; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:04:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:04:36 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Paco Cubi Message-ID: <20070315110436.GC91547@abigail.blackend.org> References: <4e2456f80703150146q25a9c96an7ce7f16dce023132@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4e2456f80703150146q25a9c96an7ce7f16dce023132@mail.gmail.com> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: found --again-- something weird on handbook chapter 8.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:04:39 -0000 On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:46:25AM +0100, Paco Cubi wrote: > As on my mail of Wed, Mar 07, 2007 I'm reporting what I thing is a mistake > on handbook's chapter 8.3: > > > The third paragraph states "*Note:* If there is *not* a > /usr/src/sysdirectory on your system, then the kernel source has not > been installed. The > easiest way to do this is by running sysinstall as root, choosing Configure, > then Distributions, then src, then sys. " > > But my experience has been that before perfoming this operation make > operation didn't started and show a "dont know how to make" message. My > intuition told me that also the "base" of the "saurce" should be added. I > tryed it an it worked! I believe that the third parragraph should be written > like this: > > "*Note:* If there is *not* a /usr/src/sys directory on your system, then the > kernel source has not been installed. The easiest way to do this is by > running sysinstall as root, choosing Configure, then Distributions, then > src, > then sys AND BASE. " > You're right, it's again a remain of the previous way used to build the kernel. With the current way we also need the top-level Makefiles. I'll fix the doc. Thanks -- Marc