From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 3:28: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 721B237B681 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 03:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23359 invoked by uid 100); 1 Nov 2000 11:27:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14847.65087.529538.447033@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 05:27:59 -0600 (CST) To: leoric@home.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WTF!! Building from source In-Reply-To: <11210943@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG leoric@home.com types: > I have read things from the FreeBSD webpage, archived mailing list > posts, and /usr/src/UPDATING. The proper way to build world and build a > kernel from source is different in each of these. First, there are two ways to build a kernel from source, and you need to use different ones in different cases. UPDATING always talks about rebuilding things with updated sources for everything; if that's what you're doing, you should follow that one (which is make buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld). Without a specific URL, it's hard to say what "the FreeBSD webpage" is talking about, but I assume you're talking about the "config/make depend/make install" (give or take a make) method. That one can be used if you're building a kernel from sources that are already installed and running. However, you can also do "buildkernel/installkernel" if you've already done the full world/kernel/kernel/world dance, and not deleted /usr/obj. Be warned that some of the things that can be set in /etc/make.conf can cause the method with config to break, and some can cause the system to be unbootable until the intallworld is done.