docs/90738: Missing distribution elements when compiling 6.0 kernel

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 07:04 am, Witold Rugowski wrote:
> >Number:         90738
> >Category:       docs
> >Synopsis:       Missing distribution elements when compiling 6.0 kernel
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       low
> >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          doc-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 21 12:10:10 GMT 2005
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Witold Rugowski
> >Release:        6.0-RELEASE
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
>
> In Bochs 2.2.1
>
> >Description:
>
> Clean, minimal instalation of 6.0-RELEASE with following source pagages
> -base
> -sys
> does not allow to make installkernel (missing etc directory or something
> like this). Adding etc src distribution allows to do make installkernel
> (without etc it is possible to compile new kernel). In Handbook
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-bui
>lding.html) etc is not mentioned as required part of distribution to
> install.
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> Install minimal 6.0-RELASE with src/sys and src/base, then
>
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
>
> >Fix:
>
> Install src/etc

Actually, I think that make installkernel should work with just src/sys 
installed.  I think this has actually been fixed in HEAD.  ru@ would know if 
it has and if it has been MFC'd yet.  I think this should be fixed for 6.1.

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