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Date:      Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:15:12 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Brad Waite <freebsd@wcubed.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building part of world
Message-ID:  <20041030131511.GB41290@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3019.67.165.234.240.1099114217.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net>
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On 2004-10-29 23:30, Brad Waite <freebsd@wcubed.net> wrote:
> > Brave people might even get away by building the sk module only, by
> > emulating the specific part of the kernel build:
> >
> > 	# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/sk
> > 	# env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/tmp/sk \
> > 	  KMODDIR=/boot/kernel DEBUG_FLAGS="-g" MACHINE=i386 \
> > 	  KERNBUILDDIR="/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL" make obj
> > 	# env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/tmp/sk \
> > 	  KMODDIR=/boot/kernel DEBUG_FLAGS="-g" MACHINE=i386 \
> > 	  KERNBUILDDIR="/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL" make all
> >
> > If all this works, you can just kldload the new if_sk.ko from
> > `/tmp/sk/usr/src/sys/modules/sk' to test your changes.
>
> Wow, Giorgos, this really *does* help.  It never dawned on me that FBSD
> even supported loadable kernel modules.  Feel kinda sheepish now, but hey,
> I guess you learn something new every day.
>
> In my stumbling around since you've enlightened me, I noticed a sk/ dir in
> /usr/src/sys/modules, and in there a Makefile.  'make install' apparently
> builds the .ko and installs it into /modules.
>
> Am I missing something here, or is this the way to go?

No, you're not missing anything.  I used the environment variables to keep the
/usr/src tree as clean as possible, but what you describe works too :-)



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