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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Making a buildable kernel source tree
In-Reply-To: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of 20 Nov 92 20:05:15 GMT
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:44:53 GMT
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In article <PC123.92Nov20200511@apus.cus.cam.ac.uk> pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes:
I am having some difficulty getting my kernel sources into a state
where I can rebuild the kernel. I installed the source distribution
as normal, and applied the official patches. Then I tried to install
the patches that came with the X distribution, but they didn't work -
some already seemed to be applied while others just failed. Does
anyone have any suggestions on this? Do you, for example, have to
apply the X patches to a completely clean kernel?
This has become a frequently asked question, so it deserves posting.
The XFree86 kernel patches were contribued to the patchkit. Since the
XFree86 and the patch kit have identcal patches for X, use one or the
other not both. If you apply patches 28-31, don't apply the XFree86
kernel patches.
However you do need to add
options XSERVER,UCONSOLE
to your kernel configuration file. Otherwise the X support is
#ifdefed out.
BTW, although we donated the patches, the attribution failed to make
it in. The authors are:
patch00028 Pace Willisson (pace@blitz.com)
patch00029 David Dawes (dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU)
patch00030 Pace Willisson (pace@blitz.com)
patch00031 Pace Willisson (pace@blitz.com)
Rich