From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 17:44:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23BD16A412 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:44:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dienst@marcrenearns.de) Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mo-p00-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1081913C457 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:44:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dienst@marcrenearns.de) Received: from rarns-ws.mdc-intern.de (www.mdc-intern.de [195.145.7.218]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo53) (RZmta 3.11) with ESMTP id j0HEtSHk002d1E; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:32:27 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:32:27 +0100 (MET) From: Marc =?iso-8859-1?q?Ren=E9_Arns?= To: doc@freebsd.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701171832.28368.dienst@marcrenearns.de> X-RZG-AUTH: hu4yiKry5uz+38eJEnF8Z/DRw5uK8w== Cc: Subject: make buildkernel fails without complete source tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:44:02 -0000 Dear documentation team as opposed to the process meantioned here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html it is not sufficious to have the kernel sources to build a kernel with # cd /usr/src # make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC This results in the message # make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop The reason is that the Makefile in /usr/src is missing when getting the kernel sources via sysinstall. Tested with 6.2 release. Even if it is a bug I think that as long as it is this way it should be reflected in the handbook. Thank you for your great work! Regards, Benny