On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny_at_cs.huji.ac.il> wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> This is an FYI to let people know about a really nice feature for those >> that have ports installed which include kernel modules. You can place a >> list in /etc/src.conf like this: >> >> PORTS_MODULES= emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod sysutils/fusefs-kmod >> x11/nvidia-driver >> >> which will cause those modules to be built and installed with all the >> proper matching stuff at the same time as buildkernel and installkernel. >> >> This feature has existed for a while, but has had "issues." Thanks to a >> team effort it's a lot more robust now, and ready for prime time (in >> HEAD, and the -STABLE branches for now, soon to be in 9.1-RELEASE). >> >> Enjoy, >> >> Doug > > nice! > does it also work when cross-compiling? ie, using an amd64-freebsd-8.3 kernel > to compile for i386-freebsd-8.2 In theory, yes, however some of the environment required to bootstrap some ports might be missing, depending on how the ports module pokes around for data in /usr/src, etc. Thanks! -GarrettReceived on Mon Jun 18 2012 - 05:53:38 UTC
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