Are we supposed to be able to build the loader standalone?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 13 June 2016 at 02:52, Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 13, 2016, at 01:04, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> I thought we could build the loader standalone by just "cd sys/boot ;
>> make". That doesn't seem to work any longer.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> You need to do:
>
> (set -e; cd sys/boot; make clean; make obj; make depend; make all)
>
> The issue is that some of the dependencies aren't completely articulated (esp the .a files), so if they were created incorrectly, it will cause you grief :(..
>
> What issues are you running into, what revision are you running, and why wasn't this email sent to current@?

because it's late and we have n+5 too many mailing lists to choose from.

Building zfsloader fails, I'm guessing because the machine/ symlink
isn't created like it is for loader. Just try "cd sys/boot; make" with
an empty src.conf / make.conf and in a clean checkout.


-adrian

>
> Thanks,
> -Ngie