Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:16:53 +0100
From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kernel config files outside of sys/${ARCH}/conf ?
Message-ID: <20120112101653.57decd32@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120112081139.GA9921@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References: <20120112081139.GA9921@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:11:39 +0100
Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> usr/sbin/config assumes that the kernel config file
> lives in ${src_base}/sys/${arch}/conf , which means that
> if you need to build a custom kernel one needs RW
> access to that directory.
>
> Any idea on how we can enable config to work in a
> generic directory ?
>
> I scanned the source code usr.sbin/config and found that
> it uses hardwired paths -- specifically, it looks for
> the kernel source tree in "../.." and has multiple
> hardwired paths such as "../../conf/".
> There is also a somewhat undocumented access to a
> file called DEFAULTS that extends the configuration you pass.
>
> Any objections to the addition of a "-s" option to config(8)
> to specify the location of the source tree ?
>
Seems like a good idea to me as long as the old behavior is kept.
--
Gary Jennejohn (gj@)
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