Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:12:25 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> Cc: murray.stokely@gmail.com, re@FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, dienst@marcrenearns.de Subject: Re: make buildkernel fails without complete source tree Message-ID: <20070118191225.0ba4c8c9.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <45AFBC10.6030700@freebsd.org> References: <200701171832.28368.dienst@marcrenearns.de> <20070118095724.GS5594@elvandar.org> <474078f80701180950s5e307d27lf91d2d2f2322737b@mail.gmail.com> <45AFBC10.6030700@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:27:28 -0800 "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> wrote: > If memory serves me right, Murray Stokely wrote: > > On 1/18/07, Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> wrote: > >> This is not true. I downloaded the packages which are being used by sysinstall > >> and extracted them. I found the Makefile, it was properly filled with instructions. > > > > It looks to me like src/release/makefile builds the tar file ssys.tar > > by just tarring /usr/src/sys and therefore would in fact be missing > > /usr/src/Makefile and /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 necessary for "make > > buildkernel". > > > > Taking a look at the tar file: > > > > cat ssys.a?? > ssys.tar && tar tvf ssys.tar > > > > I see that only files in /usr/src/sys are included. > > > > We could add a tar -r -f .. /usr/src/Makefile /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 > > to release.7 in /usr/src/release/Makefile to automatically add these > > two files as a special case to the ssys distribution. CCing re@ for > > any comments on that proposal. > > I vaguely remember this issue coming up before, and that we didn't make > any changes to packaging because that in order to use the buildkernel > target, one "should" have already done a buildworld, which requires the > complete source tree anyway. > > (Maybe I'm mis-remembering...) No, you remember correctly. It was I who raised this issue perhaps three years ago (more?). Thing I can't remember is if it was a re@ thing, something I mentioned at a conference which carried over to email, or a mailing list. -- Tom Rhodes
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