From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 15:22:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3523106566B for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:22:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997C08FC0C for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:22:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o5NFMNru011466 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:22:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5NFMMHX053942 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:22:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o5NFMMAd053941; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:22:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:22:22 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Anton Shterenlikht Message-ID: <20100623152222.GB72602@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20100623125231.GA55968@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20100623144725.GA72602@dan.emsphone.com> <20100623150638.GA25240@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100623150638.GA25240@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:22:24 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which /etc/src.conf options prevent moused rebuilding? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:22:25 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 23), Anton Shterenlikht said: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:47:25AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jun 23), Anton Shterenlikht said: > > > I've an old slow i386 running -current r209398 > > > > > > Because it's slow I don't build everything. Here's my > > > /etc/src.conf: > > > > > [...] > > > WITHOUT_LEGACY_CONSOLE= > > [...] > > > followed by the standard update procedure > > > > > > # make buildworld > > > # make buildkernel > > > # make installkernel > > > # reboot (single user) > > > # make installworld > > > # mergemaster > > > # make delete-old > > > # make delete-old-libs > > > > > > I was left with old moused: > > > > > > # moused > > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.8" not found, required by "moused" > > > # > > > > >From /usr/src/usr.sbin/Makefile : > > > > # XXX MK_SYSCONS > > # XXX is moused w/ usb useful? > > .if ${MK_LEGACY_CONSOLE} != "no" > > _kbdcontrol= kbdcontrol > > _kbdmap= kbdmap > > _moused= moused > > _vidcontrol= vidcontrol > > .endif > > > > Setting WITHOUT_LEGACY_CONSOLE= sets MK_LEGACY_CONSOLE=no, which > > disables moused. It should probably be removed and built > > unconditionally, since yes, moused is useful with usb :) > > Dan, many thanks > > I wish src.conf(5) man page were more descriptive on this option. > At present it only contains: > > WITHOUT_LEGACY_CONSOLE > Set to not build programs that support a legacy PC console; > e.g. kbdcontrol(8) and vidcontrol(8). > > so I though it doesn't affect moused. Also note that "legacy PC console" means syscons, so unless this is a headless machine you only connect to via a serial port or ssh, you probably want to leave it enabled. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com