Re: build kernel from source

[bycn82 <bycn82%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 9/22/14 14:39, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, bycn82 wrote:
> > On 9/22/14 1:12, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> > > > > make: stopped in /usr/src/usr.sbin/npf/npfctl
> > > > I suspect that you have a corrupted source tree.  Please take this 
> > > > to current-users, not tech-kern.
> > > Unlikely.  I think he is just trying to build -current code on 6.x 
> > > system by manually invoking 'make' in the directory. Well, that is 
> > > not going to work: either build using ./build.sh or build on -current.
>
> Your earlier messages showed some use of build.sh, so I incorrectly 
> assumed that you were still using build.sh.
>
> > Yes, I am trying build the npfctl from source by running "make" in 
> > the npfctl folder, because I only want to get the npfctl command from 
> > the source code.  If it is not the correct to build the npfctl, then 
> > can you please help to point out how to do it, I am new in NetBSD.
>
> Just running "make" in the npfctl folder should work if you already 
> have an up to date installation of NetBSD, but it won't work if the 
> version of NetBSD that you are running is significantly older than the 
> version of NetBSD (or the version of npfctl) that you are trying to 
> build.
>
> The recommended way to build NetBSD is with build.sh.  See 
> src/BUILDING for instructions.
>
> If you don't want to build the whole of NetBSD, but just npfctl, then 
> you will need something like this:
I think this is the correct way for me, just like "make buildworld"
> 1. Build tools.
>   cd src ; build.sh [options] tools
>   I recommend passing -m MACHINE, -T TOOLDIR, -O OBJDIR (or -M OBJDIR),
>   -D DESTDIR, and -R RELEASEDIR, as options to build.sh, because the
>   defaults are difficult to understand.
> 2. Create obj directories through out the src tree.
>   cd src ; ${TOOLDIR}/bin/nbmake-${MACHINE} obj
> 3. Install include files into ${DESTDIR}/include.
>   cd src ; ${TOOLDIR}/bin/nbmake-${MACHINE} includes
> 4. Build and install necessary libraries into ${DESTDIR}.
>   At least libc will be needed, and perhaps others too.
>   cd src/lib/libc ; ${TOOLDIR}/bin/nbmake-${MACHINE} build_install
> 5. Now you can build npfctl.
>   cd src/usr.sbin/npf/npfctl ; ${TOOLDIR}/bin/nbmake-${MACHINE} dependall
>
> The above instructions should allow you to build a new version of 
> npfctl on an old version of NetBSD, but you probably won't be able to 
> run it, because it may depend on new features in libc; and you 
> probably won't be able to install a new version of libc with an old 
> kernel, because it may depend on new kernel interfaces.
>
> > I got the source from the CVS using below command ,
> >
> >   export CVSROOT="anoncvs%anoncvs.NetBSD.org@localhost:/cvsroot"
> >   cd /usr
> >   cvs checkout -A -P src
> >
> > Am I using the correct command which can checkout the current 
> > development version of the source?
>
> That looks like the correct command.
>
> However, the fact that "grep -R BPF_COP" didn't find the expected line 
> in src/sys/net/bpf.h suggests that it didn't work.
>
> > the development version is 7.99.1?
>
> Yes.
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)