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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:39:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Alexandre L." <axelbsd@ymail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, johnea <me@johnea.net>
Subject:   Re : building from source after freebsd-update
Message-ID:  <491164.77435.qm@web24805.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B9C5A0B.7040206@johnea.net>

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Please read the handbook section related to the FreeBSD update tool
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html

freebsd-update is a binary update tool, so you haven't got anything to rebuild, except your custom kernel (if you are using one).

--- En date de : Dim 14.3.10, johnea <me@johnea.net> a écrit :

> De: johnea <me@johnea.net>
> Objet: building from source after freebsd-update
> À: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Date: Dimanche 14 mars 2010, 3h37
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have been using freebsd-update to update several 7.1
> systems.
> 
> The default freebsd-update.conf contains:
> 
> Components src world kernel
> 
> Recently while trying to build sendmail to enable SASL I
> ran into errors:
> 
> host# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
> host# make depend
> make: don't know how to make alias.c. Stop
> 
> How can I build the source updated by freebsd-update?
> 
> Thank You!
> 
> johnea
> 
> p.s. I have replaced sendmail with ssmtp and have the
> necessary SASL
>      authentication working. However I
> have always maintained these
>      servers via freebsd-update and I
> would like to learn the process
>      of building the system from
> source. Thanks for any help!
> 
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