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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiling kernel in latest snapshot
Date: 24 Apr 1995 13:12:45 +0200
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In article <9504191751.AA10351@akela.src.honeywell.com>,
Matt Englehart <englehar@src.honeywell.com> wrote:
>I don't have room on the hard drive for the entire source distribution for the
>latest snapshot. I'd like to recompile the kernel.
>
>1. Can I rebuild the kernel with only a subset of the source distribution
> (e.g. ftp.cdrom.com:pub/FreeBSD/2.0-950412-SNAP/src/ssys.a?)
I don't know what exactly is in those files, but from the name, it
looks like this is the right thing. If you don't want to install
/usr/src/include, too, you'll have to tweak your kernel Makefile
however, to pick up the include files out of /usr/include. (This is
potentially dangerous for a development machine, where /usr/include
and /usr/src/include do not necessarily agree, and has been kept out
of recent kernel Makefiles for that reason.)
Note that config(8) is tightly related to some changes in the kernel,
so you should make sure to config(8)ure your kernel with the adequate
program. (This does only matter if you're upgrading from an older
SNAP.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)