On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:19:57PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> Traditionally, kernels have been buildable in isolation: if you clone
> /sys and have a suitable config, you can build a kernel anywhere.
> 
> This seems to no longer be true of NetBSD.  On a 2.0 machine, I copied
> /sys to ~/sys (I'm doing some hackery that I don't want to plow back
> into /sys until I have it working), and ran config without errors, but
> when I tried to make depend in the resulting build directory, I got
> 
> ...
> #    create  GENERIC/param.c
> rm -f param.c
> cp ../../../../conf/param.c .
> make: don't know how to make ../../../../../contrib/sys/dev/ic/athhal_osdep.c. Stop
> 
> That looks as though it's trying to reach over from /usr/src/sys into
> /usr/src/contrib/sys.
> 
> Is it simply no longer supported by NetBSD to build kernels without the
> full /usr/src context?  Or is this a bug worth sending-pr?  Or what?

you just need to add contrib/sys to that if you want ath support.

James