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From: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker)
Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel
In-Reply-To: <20000726172019.A34545@mithrandr.moria.org> from Neil Blakey-Milner at "Jul 26, 0 05:20:19 pm"
To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner)
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 04:04:56 +0200 (CEST)
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> On Sat 2000-07-22 (10:06), Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> > In the handbook in 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
> > it says:

> > [..]
> > Clearly, this is not going to work if the user using a release version
> > of freebsd and has not loaded all the sources (the instructions
> > currently tell him/her to only load the sys portion of the sources).
> > Then the user should use the config method.

> 'make buildkernel' works without a populated /usr/obj tree, and with
> only the /usr/src/sys tree and /usr/src/Makefile and
> /usr/src/Makefile.inc.  I know because I just tried it.

> The only thing that needs to change is the setting of OBJFORMAT_PATH
> from ${WORLDTMP}/usr/libexec to ${WORLTMP}/usr/libexec:/usr/libexec.

But isn't the whole point of the buildkernel method to build the kernel
using the new tools you just created in /usr/obj? If i got this right
i think you actually WANT a buildkernel without an existing /usr/obj
to fail, hopefully with a message to please make buildworld first.

Wolfgang


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