From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 1:19:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-009.telepath.com [216.14.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C844337B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 01:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 77114 invoked by uid 100); 28 Aug 2000 08:19:15 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14762.8323.382969.782508@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:19:15 -0500 (CDT) To: Brooks Davis Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hints static wiring In-Reply-To: <20000827184037.A22500@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <867l92lw8e.wl@tkc.att.ne.jp> <20000827184037.A22500@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brooks Davis writes: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:33:21PM +0900, Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: > > Doing 'make install' without /boot/device.hints is failed, > > saying "You must set up a /boot/device.hints file first." > > Is this right? > You should read cvs-all. There was a commit by Peter which forces you > to install a /boot/device.hints file to install a kernel as an anti-foot > shooting measure. An empty file (ie touch /boot/device.hints) is > acceptable for those who don't want to use a hints file. I do read cvs-all, and I missed it. Not did I find device.hints in the relevant Makefiles. Can you provide a pointer to details on how /boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having an empty one keeps you from shooting yourself in the foot? Thanx,