From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Apr 6 4:57:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F12637B43E for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 1014 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Apr 2001 11:56:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:56:04 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/26317: /modules not created by make installkernel Message-ID: <20010406145604.A447@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce Evans , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200104031540.f33Fe4x94227@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:13:25PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:13:25PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > The following reply was made to PR kern/26317; it has been noted by GNATS. > > The following reply was not been noted by GNATS, since GNATS is too broken > to put itself in the Cc :-). > > > As you correctly point out, a workaround is to always have a /modules dir. > > I wonder, though, whether the 'installkernel' target in Makefile.inc1 should > > not, too, invoke a 'make hierarchy', or at least some subset of that, to do > > an mtree from BSD.root.dist; that should ensure that the /modules directory > > is there. > > No more than sh/Makefile should invoke a 'make hierarchy', or at least some > subset of that, to recover from /bin somehow not existing. So, basically, are you saying that this is not a problem and this PR should be closed, or do you think the installkernel target should at least make an attempt at doing the right thing in case of a user mess-up, and just mkdir ${DESTDIR}/modules? G'luck, Peter -- I am jealous of the first word in this sentence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message