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> References: <2614.67.165.234.240.1099073745.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <20041029183742.GB76157@dan.emsphone.com> <20041029202605.GC1046@gothmog.gr> <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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