Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 04:04:56 +0200 (CEST) From: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel Message-ID: <m13Hd2e-000kRFC@lyxys.ka.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <20000726172019.A34545@mithrandr.moria.org> from Neil Blakey-Milner at "Jul 26, 0 05:20:19 pm"
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> On Sat 2000-07-22 (10:06), Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > In the handbook in > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html > > it says: > > [..] > > Clearly, this is not going to work if the user using a release version > > of freebsd and has not loaded all the sources (the instructions > > currently tell him/her to only load the sys portion of the sources). > > Then the user should use the config method. > 'make buildkernel' works without a populated /usr/obj tree, and with > only the /usr/src/sys tree and /usr/src/Makefile and > /usr/src/Makefile.inc. I know because I just tried it. > The only thing that needs to change is the setting of OBJFORMAT_PATH > from ${WORLDTMP}/usr/libexec to ${WORLTMP}/usr/libexec:/usr/libexec. But isn't the whole point of the buildkernel method to build the kernel using the new tools you just created in /usr/obj? If i got this right i think you actually WANT a buildkernel without an existing /usr/obj to fail, hopefully with a message to please make buildworld first. Wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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