From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 18 09:57:32 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 B752616A4C2 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:57:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFB113C44C for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:57:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by caelis.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58CF92FD22; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:57:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org ([217.148.169.59]) by localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03090-09; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:57:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from redqueen.evilcoder-services.org (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by caelis.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D3292FCD4; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:57:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by redqueen.evilcoder-services.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AC41865E8; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:57:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:57:24 +0100 From: Remko Lodder To: Marc Ren? Arns Message-ID: <20070118095724.GS5594@elvandar.org> References: <200701171832.28368.dienst@marcrenearns.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701171832.28368.dienst@marcrenearns.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 at elvandar.org Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:57:32 -0000 On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:32:27PM +0100, Marc Ren? Arns wrote: > 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 Hello, This is not true. I downloaded the packages which are being used by sysinstall and extracted them. I found the Makefile, it was properly filled with instructions. That said; if this was the case, we would already be swampted with requests to fix this. Most likely your installation medium did not provide the src packages at all, or your download (if you used that) was corrupt or something. Thanks for the notice however! Best regards, remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */