Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:51:53 GMT From: Jared <blahbleh666@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/150124: Request for update of "building the kernel" section of the handbook Message-ID: <201008301651.o7UGpr3e005643@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201008301700.o7UH07J3044586@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 150124 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Request for update of "building the kernel" section of the handbook >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 30 17:00:06 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jared >Release: i386 8.1-REL >Organization: >Environment: (sorry I don't have this handy, but I don't think it's necessary) >Description: I'm having difficulty building and installing a new kernel while following the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html it appears that this page especially is out of date. It only mentions the requirement of ssys and sbase distribution sets, but much googling (as I run into each problem) suggests that more sets of sources are necessary. I eventually installed them all, because I don't know which are necessary. Another page that could use some help is the description of the configuration file: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html as it no longer matches the config file in i386 very closely. I (and probably many others) would appreciate if these pages were corrected. Pretty please? :) Much thanks for all that you do! >How-To-Repeat: Try building a kernel whilst following the page. You will not succeed due to lack of additional source code sets. >Fix: I installed all the sources and it satisfied all requirements. Surely not every set is necessary for a vanilla compile (I was just adding sound support and removing support for hardware i don't have). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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