Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:11:54 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Murray Stokely <murray.stokely@gmail.com>, re@freebsd.org, Marc Ren? Arns <dienst@marcrenearns.de> Subject: Re: make buildkernel fails without complete source tree Message-ID: <200701221111.56264.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070121212428.GA47379@rambler-co.ru> References: <200701171832.28368.dienst@marcrenearns.de> <474078f80701181348q16ceb16bs40ba45b3d7057b83@mail.gmail.com> <20070121212428.GA47379@rambler-co.ru>
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On Sunday 21 January 2007 16:24, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:48:14PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > On 1/18/07, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > ===================================================================
> > >- { " sys", "/usr/src/sys (FreeBSD kernel)",
> > >+ { " sys", "/usr/src/sys (FreeBSD kernel; requires
> > >'base'
> > >to build)",
> >
> > I think this is a good solution.
> >
> I don't think this is a good idea as it's not actually required.
> The sys/ part have traditionally been standalone. And if you're
> not upgrading then "buildkernel" is just a convenience alias for
> config/make method. Actually this method is always used except
> that in the buildkernel case it will use an upgraded toolchain
> if it was previously built by "buildworld".
It is required for buildkernel as otherwise there's no Makefile in /usr/src
with a buildkernel target. It's only not required if you do 'config, etc.'
by hand, but 'make buildkernel' requires some sort of /usr/src/Makefile,
obviously. :)
--
John Baldwin
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