Bug 20136

Summary: shouldn't use make buildkernel with release version of FreeBSD
Product: Documentation Reporter: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Stephen Montgomery-Smith 2000-07-24 09:10:01 UTC 
In the handbook in the web page
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
it tells you that if you are using FreeBSD 4.x or higher, that
when building a custom kernel, you should use the
make buildkernel method instead of the old config method.

This is not going to work with FreeBSD 4.1 release, because
the make buildkernel method requires ALL the sources, not
just /usr/src/sys (which is all the handbook told the user
to load.)

This problem has already generated one question on the newsgroup
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, and if the handbook goes out like
this when FreeBSD 4.1-release goes out, you will get a load of
people saying that they followed the instructions in the handbook
and got a make: no target to make error.

I made it serious/high priority in the hopes that this will be
fixed before 4.1-release gets out.

I sent a PR like this a few days ago, but I think it got lost -
I certainly had a bad return address on it.  I hope that this
PR does not appear twice.
Comment 1 alex freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-25 10:32:05 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I updated the part.