The following reply was made to PR port-shark/35563; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-arm@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-shark/35563 - A fix for instkernel
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:34:11 +0100

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 Hi,
 
 The attached patch fixes shark's release process to properly generate  
 an a.out installation kernel and place it in the "installation/ 
 instkernel" subdirectory of the release tree.
 
 What do you think about this?
 
 Is it there any way to avoid the 'release-arch' target added to the  
 common files?
 
 INSTALL notes will need to be adjusted once committed as they refer  
 to a "netbsd.gz" file inside instkernel, but this patch leaves it as  
 netbsd-INSTALL.aout.gz.  I did that just in case we want to provide  
 more than one install kernel.  But... do we really need to take care  
 of this?  Or could the patch be simplified to handle a single install  
 kernel?
 
 
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 ? shark/instkernel/instkernel/.Makefile.swp
 Index: common/Makefile.mdset
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/src/distrib/common/Makefile.mdset,v
 retrieving revision 1.28
 diff -u -p -r1.28 Makefile.mdset
 --- common/Makefile.mdset	23 Aug 2006 19:01:26 -0000	1.28
 +++ common/Makefile.mdset	9 Mar 2007 16:29:06 -0000
 @@ -152,10 +152,14 @@ CLEANFILES+=	${KERNELS} ${KERNELSYMS}
  realall: ${KERNELS}
  
  .if defined(MDSET_RELEASEDIR)
 -release:: check_RELEASEDIR .WAIT ${KERNELS}
 +release:: check_RELEASEDIR .WAIT ${KERNELS} release-arch
  	${RELEASE_INSTALL} ${KERNELS} ${KERNELSYMS} \
  	    ${RELEASEDIR}/${MACHINE}/${MDSET_RELEASEDIR}
  .endif
  
 +.if !target(release-arch)
 +release-arch:
 +.endif
 +
  
  .endif	# _MAKEFILE_MDSET_
 Index: shark/instkernel/instkernel/Makefile
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 RCS file: /cvsroot/src/distrib/shark/instkernel/instkernel/Makefile,v
 retrieving revision 1.14
 diff -u -p -r1.14 Makefile
 --- shark/instkernel/instkernel/Makefile	21 Sep 2003 00:19:31 -0000	1.14
 +++ shark/instkernel/instkernel/Makefile	9 Mar 2007 16:29:06 -0000
 @@ -9,10 +9,31 @@ RAMDISK=	${RAMDISKDIR}/ramdisk.fs
  MDSETTARGETS=		INSTALL ${RAMDISK} -
  MDSET_RELEASEDIR=	binary/kernel
  
 -MDSET_POST.-= \
 +.include "${DISTRIBDIR}/common/Makefile.mdset"
 +
 +.for _K _I _F in ${MDSETTARGETS}
 +
 +_FILENAME:=${_F}		# (work around obscure issue in make(1))
 +.if ${_FILENAME} == "-"
 +_FILENAME:=		${_KERNEL.${_K}.${_F}}
 +.endif
 +
 +dependall: ${_FILENAME}.aout.gz
 +release-arch: release-arch-${_K}-aout
 +
 +${_FILENAME}.aout: ${_FILENAME}
  	${OBJCOPY} -O a.out-arm-netbsd -R .ident -R .arm.atpcs -R .comment \
 -	    ${.TARGET} ${.TARGET}
 +	    ${_FILENAME} ${_FILENAME}.aout
  
 -.include "${DISTRIBDIR}/common/Makefile.mdset"
 +${_FILENAME}.aout.gz: ${_FILENAME}.aout
 +	gzip -9c ${_FILENAME}.aout >${_FILENAME}.aout.gz
 +
 +release-arch-${_K}-aout: ${_FILENAME}.aout.gz
 +	${RELEASE_INSTALL} ${_FILENAME}.aout.gz \
 +	    ${RELEASEDIR}/${MACHINE}/installation/instkernel/${_FILENAME}.aout.gz
 +
 +CLEANFILES+= ${_FILENAME}.aout ${_FILENAME}.aout.gz
 +
 +.endfor
  
  .include <bsd.prog.mk>
 
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 Thanks.
 
 -- 
 Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
 
 
 
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