Re: Please read if you use x86 -current

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:57:08 +0000
Andrew Doran <ad%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> To build and install
> modules:
> 
>       cd src/sys/modules
>       make
>       make install
> 
> I am open to ideas about how this can be automated either via the
> kernel makefile, or build.sh.
> 
At a minimum, build.sh should have an option to do that, to get the
proper path for the toolchain, since these instructions can fail:

# cd sys/modules
# make
all ===> miniroot
#   compile  miniroot/miniroot.o
/usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-4.99.73-x86_64/bin/x86_64--netbsd-gcc -O2 
-mcmodel=kernel -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith 
-Wno-sign-compare -Wno-traditional -Wa,--fatal-warnings  -Werror  
-ffreestanding  -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign  
-I/usr/src/common/include  -nostdinc -I. -I/usr/src/sys/modules/miniroot 
-isystem /usr/src/sys -isystem /usr/src/sys/arch -isystem 
/usr/src/sys/../common/include -D_KERNEL -D_LKM -D_MODULE -c    miniroot.c
sh: /usr/src/tooldir.NetBSD-4.99.73-x86_64/bin/x86_64--netbsd-gcc: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/src/sys/modules/miniroot
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/src/sys/modules


Perhaps a '-l' option meaning 'build modules'?

Or -- how much compile-time is involved?  Is there any reason to avoid
building them?  We build all sets, even for folks who don't want to install,
say, games.tgz.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb