Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:20:19 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel Message-ID: <20000726172019.A34545@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <3979B866.71DB447E@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:06:14AM -0500 References: <3979B866.71DB447E@math.missouri.edu>
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On Sat 2000-07-22 (10:06), Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > In the handbook in > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html > it says: > > When you are finished, type the following to compile and install your > kernel if you are using FreeBSD prior FreeBSD 4.0 and don't want to > upgrade to FreeBSD 4.0 or higher with this step. > > .... usual config method > > For FreeBSD 4.x or later (or upgrading from FreeBSD 3.x to FreeBSD 4.x or > higher), use the following commands (be sure you have built world before!): > > .... new make buildworld method > > > > Clearly, this is not going to work if the user using a release version > of freebsd and has not loaded all the sources (the instructions > currently tell him/her to only load the sys portion of the sources). > Then the user should use the config method. 'make buildkernel' works without a populated /usr/obj tree, and with only the /usr/src/sys tree and /usr/src/Makefile and /usr/src/Makefile.inc. I know because I just tried it. The only thing that needs to change is the setting of OBJFORMAT_PATH from ${WORLDTMP}/usr/libexec to ${WORLTMP}/usr/libexec:/usr/libexec. What do you think, Marcel? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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