Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:40:22 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PORTS_MODULES Message-ID: <E1SgWZS-000E3Y-Gm@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <4FDE4A47.2030204@FreeBSD.org> References: <4FDE4A47.2030204@FreeBSD.org>
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> Howdy, > > This is an FYI to let people know about a really nice feature for those > that have ports installed which include kernel modules. You can place a > list in /etc/src.conf like this: > > PORTS_MODULES= emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod sysutils/fusefs-kmod > x11/nvidia-driver > > which will cause those modules to be built and installed with all the > proper matching stuff at the same time as buildkernel and installkernel. > > This feature has existed for a while, but has had "issues." Thanks to a > team effort it's a lot more robust now, and ready for prime time (in > HEAD, and the -STABLE branches for now, soon to be in 9.1-RELEASE). > > Enjoy, > > Doug nice! does it also work when cross-compiling? ie, using an amd64-freebsd-8.3 kernel to compile for i386-freebsd-8.2 thanks, danny
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