On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:32:24AM -0600, Alan Amesbury wrote: > Jorge Aldana wrote: > > >I'm on 6.1PreRelease and this works: > > > >strings -n 3 /boot/kernel/kernel | grep -v ____ | sed -n 's/^___//p' > > > >There was a minor tweek in this line back in 5.X transition form 4.X but > >my script works fine for 6.X since then. > > Note that the problem isn't in the line you provided above that extracts > the built-in configuration file. It's in the build procedure that's > supposed to put the config file into the kernel in the first place. In > other words, "options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE" doesn't include *all* the > configuration data, because it doesn't include included configuration > files. It's only including the very first level of nested configuration > files, which is not an accurate representation of what's in the kernel. > > In my example, the configuration file for GENERIC should've been in > there somewhere, as well as anything included by GENERIC (such as the > stuff in DEFAULTS). > > Again, this used to work great, but appears to have been broken in favor > of... usability? > I posted a patch to config(8) some time ago that did what you want, but it wasn't widely accepted so I abandoned it.
Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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