From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 13:13:11 2011 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 EFFDB106566C; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:13:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@daemonic.se) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (mail.lysator.liu.se [IPv6:2001:6b0:17:f0a0::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C6B8FC1B; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA78E4003A; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:13:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AFDCB40039; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:13:08 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bernadotte.lysator.liu.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 Received: from mx.daemonic.se (mx.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6FCD540038; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:13:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.daemonic.se (mail.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::4]) by mx.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 20CFA119C08; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:13:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from tifa.daemonic.se (b-76-233.eduroam.liu.se [130.236.76.233]) by mail.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C7DF612B0A1; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:13:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from tifa.daemonic.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tifa.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id B03071D; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:13:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EB92ADA.6080309@daemonic.se> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:12:58 +0100 From: Niclas Zeising User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "O. Hartmann" References: <4EB9142D.3090705@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4EB9142D.3090705@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: Current FreeBSD , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS 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: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:13:12 -0000 On 11/08/11 12:36, O. Hartmann wrote: > Sorry for the boring question, but is the default configuration file > /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS anywhere include in a regular configuration > file for the kernel while building the kernel? > > I looked for include statements in GENERIC, but didn't find one. I use > custom kernel config files and adapt most changes from the NOTES files > in the sources tree. > > With the today's update of README in /sys/amd64/conf I realised some > important changes, so this triggered my question. > > I simply made an additional "include" in the custom config file, but if > this isn't necessary, I'll delete it again. And I'm interested in how > the kernel is built from. It is a very convenient way to type simply > "make kerne" in /usr/src/, but it vanishes to much of the complexity and > understanding how the system builds and could cause problems. > > Thanks for your patience and tahnks in advance, > > Regards, > Oliver From my understanding of things, the DEFAULTS kernel configuration file is automatically included into the build by config(8). There is no need to include it into the generic using the "include" statement. It was first added 6 years ago, on October 27 2005. Regards! -- Niclas Zeising