Kernel Building Documentation for 8.1-REL

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 06:53:24PM -0500, J D wrote:
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> Greetings FreeBSD Team!
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> I'm having difficulty building and installing a new kernel while following the handbook:
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> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
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> it appears that this page especially is out of date.  It only mentions the requirement of ssys and sbase distribution sets, but much googling (as I run into each problem) suggests that more sets of sources are necessary.  I eventually installed them all, because I don't know which are necessary.  Another page that could use some help is the description of the configuration file:
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> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
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> as it no longer matches the config file in i386 very closely.
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> I (and probably many others) would appreciate if these pages were corrected.  Pretty please? :)
>

Yes, some parts need to be updated.  Could you please fill-in a PR about
that, it helps us to keep a track of things.

-- 
Marc