Subject: Re: Unable to build GENERIC
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/01/2004 10:36:31
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:46:47PM +0200, Wouter Klouwen wrote:
> Tillman Hodgson(tillman@seekingfire.com) said 2004.09.01 09:34:38 +0000:
> > I before designing and building a custom kernel for my SS10, I wanted to
> > time building the default GENERIC kernel. However .... :
> 
> You might want to read your sentences before you send your emails. :D

Indeed. vimspell doesn't have a grammer or sanity checker yet ;-)

> > Am I going about building the kernel the wrong way? (I'm following
> > chapter 19 and chapter 9 from the guide). Is -current broken at the
> > moment?
> 
> Please use build.sh in /usr/src. Also please not that the FreeBSD guide does
> not apply to NetBSD.
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/#how_to_build_a_kernel

Which you'll note is chapter 9 from the NetBSD Guide (the FreeBSD
documentation is called the Handbook").

The instructions from Chapter 9 of the NetBSD Guide don't refer to
build.sh ...  should I looking at Chapter 8 (Using the build.sh
front-end) rather than Chapter 9 (Compiling the kernel)?

> What you want is:
> 	# build.sh tools kernel=GENERIC

I'll read over Chapter 8 and give that a try, thanks.

-T


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