Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:18:26 -0700 From: Derek Wood <ddwood@highdensity.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken instructions for buildkernel Message-ID: <20130620011826.GA12831@yavin> In-Reply-To: <023e01ce6d47$dab08470$90118d50$@hain-global-consulting.com> References: <023e01ce6d47$dab08470$90118d50$@hain-global-consulting.com>
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:51:01PM -0700, Tony Hain wrote: > The steps in > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html > are simply broken/incomplete. This sequence goes straight from 'get the src' > to 'make buildkernel'. Doing that to build 10-current on a 9.1 fresh install > results in "no previous prototype for yyparse". Searching for that error > string shows it has been a recurring problem; & returns comments like ::: > "you must do make buildworld first" ::: > If buildworld is a prereq, why isn't that in the instruction sequence? Even > if it is only required once, on a fresh install it should be possible to > look at the FreeBSD docs and build a custom kernel without hitting errors > and having to search for hints. The instructions for tracking a development branch cover the use case you want: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html What you were looking at is used for building a kernel from a source tree that is already in sync with the installed kernel/world. e.g, enabling PF/ALTQ.
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