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#! rnews 5068 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!juts.ccc.amdahl.com!azcb0 From: azcb0@ccc.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) Subject: Re: NetBSD-current compilation - how Message-ID: <1995Sep7.104220.17651@ccc.amdahl.com> Reply-To: azcb0@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA References: <42irqg$mqn@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 10:42:20 GMT Lines: 107 In article <42irqg$mqn@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk> CHAN Yiu Wah <clarence> writes: >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) >X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc > >Hello, > > I just download the NetBSD-current source from ftp.iastate.edu and > want to compile the new kernel. Can anyone kindly tell me how to do > it. I want to test the ccd driver under i386 platform. Thanks. Remember to subscribe to the current-users@netbsd.org mailing list, if you're running -current. The following instructions have helped other people upgrade to -current [The last update of these instructions was at Wed Aug 9 16:58:24 BST 1995] [Remember to make yourself a new config (not config.old) kernel config file.] [Make sure you have COMPAT_10 as part of your kernel config options.] [This assumes that the -current source is in /usr/src] # Hopefully, this will do away with the subsequent mkdir's below... - agc # from Mark Willey (mwilley@mwilley.sc.intel.com) (cd /usr/src/etc; make DESTDIR=/ distrib-dirs) (cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/config ; make && make install && make cleandir) # if you don't do this, config of your kernel config file will # fail with errors in files.i386 (cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas ; make && make install && make cleandir) # if you don't do this, you won't be able to build locore.s, with # errors about cpuid instruction not found (cd /sys/arch/i386/conf ; config MYKERNEL) (cd /sys/arch/i386/compile/MYKERNEL ; make depend && make) # copy new kernel to /, and boot off it (cd /usr/src/share/mk ; make install) # if you don't do this, you'll get errors building gcc, when it # doesn't know how to make the manual pages (don't know how to make gcc.0) (cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc2 ; make && make install && make cleandir) (cd /usr/src/usr.bin/rpcgen ; make && make install && make cleandir) # this makes the new (ANSI-C) rpcgen and installs it. Otherwise you'll # have problems with any programs that use it, like rpc.rstatd etc (cd /usr/src/lib/csu; make && make install) # Otherwise ld will fail not finding scrt0.o # from David Jones (dej@eecg.toronto.edu) # Bernd Wiserner says that the ld.so that will be built next will # work only with libc.so.12.0, not with libc.so.12.3 # His instructions to make a working ld.so follow: # Do NOT run ldconfig while doing the following 7 lines ... (cd /usr/src/include ; make && make install) cp -p /usr/libexec/ld.so /usr/libexec/ld.so.good (cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld ; make && make install && make cleandir) cp -p /usr/libexec/ld.so.good /usr/libexec/ld.so (cd /usr/src/lib/libcurses ; make && make install) # otherwise libterm won't be made correctly - invalid prototype (cd /usr/src/lib ; make && make install && make cleandir) # Then build ld.so again ... (cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld ; make && make install && make cleandir) # Thanks, Bernd... # it was at this stage that I got REALLY fed up with the # sh: warning: running as root with dot in PATH (cd /usr/src/bin/sh ; make && make install && make cleandir) # and now back to the beginning and make the world (cd /usr/src/bin ; make && make install && make cleandir) (cd /usr/src/sbin ; make && make install && make cleandir) mkdir /usr/share/doc/usd/13.viref # otherwise "make install" in /usr/src/usr.bin will fail because # the destination directory doesn't exist - from Tom Thai # if you're using the obj directory hierarchy, use (cd /usr/src/usr.bin/lex ; cp initscan.c obj/scan.c) # otherwise (i.e. no obj directory hierarchy) (cd /usr/src/usr.bin/lex ; cp initscan.c scan.c) # if you don't, then lex won't be built # Bootstrap xlint mkdir -p /usr/libdata/lint (cd /usr/src/usr.bin/xlint ; make ; make install ; make ; make install) (cd /usr/src/usr.bin ; make && make install && make cleandir) (cd /usr/src/usr.sbin ; make && make install && make cleandir) (cd /usr/src/libexec ; make && make install && make cleandir) (cd /usr/src/gnu ; make && make install && make cleandir) (cd /usr/src/share ; make && make install && make cleandir) mkdir /usr/share/doc/usd/30.rogue /usr/share/doc/usd/31.trek # otherwise "make install" in /usr/src/games will fail # actually, last time I tried this, the dirs were already there - agc (cd /usr/src/games ; make && make install && make cleandir) Cheers, Alistair -- Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) +44 125 234 6377 Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK. [These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]