How to build 9.0 from source?
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Feb 5 16:22:51 UTC 2012
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, james wrote:
> I installed 9.0 without sources.
>
> Now I'd like to try building the kernel (or specifically the mfi driver), so
> I've tried to get the sources.
>
> The handbook says (in 9.55) to use sysinstall to get the source configuration
> - but that doesn't seem to work and what its trying to fetch seems more like
> an 8.x source set,
Yes, those instructions need to be updated. sysinstall doesn't work for
fetching 9.0 source. Here's a post I wrote in the forums that shows
three ways to retrieve the 9.0 source:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29172
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