Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:38:10 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build 9.0 from source? Message-ID: <CAHHBGkqHbYjPLJzC817uSEZg77wuiYdZK3P98hSo51XZ00mRuQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F2E8F17.3020502@mansionfamily.plus.com> References: <4F2E8F17.3020502@mansionfamily.plus.com>
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On 5 February 2012 09:15, james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote: > I installed 9.0 without sources. > > Now I'd like to try building the kernel (or specifically the mfi driver), so > I've tried to get the sources. > > The handbook says (in 9.55) to use sysinstall to get the source > configuration - but that doesn't seem to work and what its trying to fetch > seems more like an 8.x source set As a general rule, avoid sysinstall. And once you've successfully installed the system, definitely don't try to use sysinstall for anything. It does involve learning a thousand difference commands, but it's worth it. The most direct method is as outbackdingo@gmail.com said: edit up a supfile & run csup(1). You can also download the relevant src.txz from your favourite ftp server, & extract it (tar xpf etc etc). Or even go whole hog & pull it down via svn (this does take up about double the space, though). -- --
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