Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:04:36 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Paco Cubi <francisco.cubi@gmail.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: found --again-- something weird on handbook chapter 8.3 Message-ID: <20070315110436.GC91547@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <4e2456f80703150146q25a9c96an7ce7f16dce023132@mail.gmail.com> References: <4e2456f80703150146q25a9c96an7ce7f16dce023132@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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