On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Gilles Chehade <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ [...]
Is it possible to update the FAQ to reflect this? Since "cd /somewhere" does not accurately indicate this, and dmesg then creates a problem. -Amarendra
