Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:20:58 -0500 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build 9.0 from source? Message-ID: <CAKYr3zy7=LeqYYNKrH1FLVPwyzHa2=9Dx20hNxpSxjufC_0P5g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F2E8F17.3020502@mansionfamily.plus.com> References: <4F2E8F17.3020502@mansionfamily.plus.com>
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On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:15 AM, james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote: > I installed 9.0 without sources. > > Now I'd like to try building the kernel (or specifically the mfi driver), so > I've tried to get the sources. > > The handbook says (in 9.55) to use sysinstall to get the source > configuration - but that doesn't seem to work and what its trying to fetch > seems more like an 8.x source set, > > I fetched src.txz and unpacked it and sorted out the /usr/src/sys link, and > 'make' in the root of that builds the boot code ok. > > However, there is no /usr/src/UPDATING to check per 9.5, and 'cd > /usr/src;make buildkernel' tells me: > > make: don't know how t make buildkerel. Stop. > > /usr/src was empty before I set up the 'sys' link (which in my case points > to a zfs volume). > > It seems wrong to m - how can I get sources etc installed so I can build the > kernel? (And userspace if necessary - but its the mfi driver I want to > fiddle with) look in /usr/share/examples/cvsup theres files for csup, edit them to your needs, cvsup server and release the run csup -g 2 -L stable-supfile itll fetch all the sources... also see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > > James > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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