Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:22:49 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build 9.0 from source? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202050920520.67567@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4F2E8F17.3020502@mansionfamily.plus.com> References: <4F2E8F17.3020502@mansionfamily.plus.com>
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, james wrote: > I installed 9.0 without sources. > > Now I'd like to try building the kernel (or specifically the mfi driver), so > I've tried to get the sources. > > The handbook says (in 9.55) to use sysinstall to get the source configuration > - but that doesn't seem to work and what its trying to fetch seems more like > an 8.x source set, Yes, those instructions need to be updated. sysinstall doesn't work for fetching 9.0 source. Here's a post I wrote in the forums that shows three ways to retrieve the 9.0 source: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29172
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