On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43:52AM +0200, David Vasek wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldKernel has a section > >"Variation on above process: Read-only source tree", which talks about > >building a kernel outside src/. Interestingly, when I do a GENERIC.MP > >build, by following these steps, the name displayed via config is that > >of the directory in which this kernel has been built. Eg. > > > ># cd /home/foo/bar/testbuild > ># cp /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC.MP . > ># config -s /usr/src/sys -b . GENERIC.MP > ># make clean && make depend && make > ># make install > > > >"config -e" displays the kernel string as: > >OpenBSD 5.0-beta (testbuild) #2: Fri Jul 29 12:50:00 IST 2011 > > root@zimbu:/home/foo/bar/testbuild > > > >This may confuse, especially when a "dmesg" is required, as it loses > >the type of kernel built - GENERIC or GENERIC.MP. > > It loses the arch too. It is not easy to distinguish between i386 and > amd64 then. > > Regards, > David >
can't you actually do: # mkdir -p /home/foo/bar/testbuild/`uname -m`/GENERIC.MP # cd /home/foo/bar/testbuild/`uname -m`/GENERIC.MP which would keep the arch and kernel name in the build path just as with a build from the "regular" path ? Gilles -- Gilles Chehade http://u.poolp.org/~gilles/
