On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 4:03 AM, <openbsd_mis...@zehmahyesh.e4ward.com> wrote: > First, sorry for the bogus formatting in my previous email... > hopefully, this one is better. > > It turns out that I needed to manually delete the ".depend" file from > a previous kernel build in my local build directory. The makefile has > only this under the "depend" target: > > B B touch $@ > > and 'make clean' didn't delete '.depend' as I would expect it should. > It looks like a new ".depend" file is not written out, but the old > one was recognized and used which caused my problems. > > Nice "gotcha"! B Shouldn't this be documented? Also, what happened to > the FAQ text about non-root kernel build procedures??
Mmmm stuff about depend part was documented in current guide, but seems to be missing either in FAQ or upgrade guide for 4.9 -> 5.0 Change is visible in man release between 4.9 and 5.0 so will be somewhere in CVS logs as well. > > On 24 Dec 2011 at 18:10, misc@openbsd.org wrote: > >> Some strange things going on... >> >> Running OpenBSD 5.0 on an x86 32 bit, upgraded smoothly from 4.9 aside >> from at upgrade from 4.9 to 5.0, the upgrade failed at first trying to >> start the network with this hostname.if file for my external facing >> interface: up dhcp -inet6 >> >> ... complaining that it is an invalid hostname file. This worked just >> fine in 4.9. After scratching my head for a long time, I changed it to >> be: up -inet6 dhcp .. and it worked... looks like /etc/netstart >> changed how it parses hostname.if files but there is no documentation >> about this. >> >> Once I had a working system again after completing the full upgrade >> process, I primed my source directories by removing /usr/src/*, >> /usr/xenocara, and /usr/ports. >> >> I then downloaded the 4 source tarballs from >> http://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/*.tar.gz, unpacked them >> into the proper places and ran "cvs update" on them (using the proper >> options for the -stable branch, of course, as per the FAQ). There were >> no updates patched into the trees. >> >> The patch for the bind DoS >> (http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.0/common/001_bind.patch) >> specifically was not in the CVS stable branch, almost a month after >> the patch came out. B I had to add it manually to the tree. >> >> I then tried to build the kernel as a regular user following this >> text: "Variation on above process: Read-only source tree Sometimes, >> you may wish to ensure your /usr/src/sys directory remains untouched. >> This can be done by using the following process: >> >> B B $ cd /somewhere >> B B $ cp /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC . >> B B $ config -s /usr/src/sys -b . GENERIC >> B B $ make clean && make depend && make >> B B B B ... lots of output ..." >> ... which is missing now from the latest FAQ page >> (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldKernel)... I had to search >> the internet to find this text again. B It still _does_say: "Note that >> you can build a kernel without root access, but you must have root to >> install the kernel." but the procedure on how to do it is gone. >> >> When I try to build the kernel in an empty limited user directory >> after the config command above, I get the following error: $ make >> clean && make depend && make rm -f eddep *bsd *bsd.gdb tags *.[dio] >> [a-z]*.s B [Ee]rrs linterrs assym.h make: don't know how to make >> /usr/src/sys/uvm/uvm_pglist.h. Stop in /home/xxxx/kernel-build. $ >> >> Can anybody tell me what is going on or what I'm missing or did wrong? >> B Is building a kernel from read-only sources now not supported?? B I >> didn't try to build this as root yet, figuring I have some sort of >> borked system. >> >> Any insight welcomed. B I don't follow the maling lists too regularly >> so I must have missed something.
