.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software .\" must display the following acknowledgement: .\" This product includes software developed by the University of .\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" from: @(#)config.8 5.1 (Berkeley) 1/12/93 .\" $Id: config.new.8,v 1.3 1993/12/20 22:42:55 davidb Exp $ .\" .Dd January 12, 1993 .Dt CONFIG.NEW 8 .Os BSD 4 .Sh NAME .Nm config.new .Nd build kernel compilation directories .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm config.new .Op Fl p .Ar system-name .Sh DESCRIPTION .Pp .Nm Config.new builds a set of configuration files from the file .Ar system-name , which describes the system to configure. .Pp .Nm Config.new should run from the .Pa conf subdirectory of the top-level machine-specific directory of the system source (usually .Pa /sys/arch/MACHINE/conf , where .Pa MACHINE is one of .Pa vax , .Pa tahoe , .Pa hp300 , and so forth). .Nm Config.new assumes the directory .Pa ../compile exists; it places all output files in a subdirectory there, creating the subdirectory if necessary. The subdirectory name is taken from the .Ar system-name ; thus, configuring with .Dq Li config.new PICKLE will use the directory .Pa ../compile/PICKLE . .Pp If the .Fl p option is supplied, .Pa .PROF is appended to the compilation directory name, and .Nm config.new acts as if the lines .Dq Li makeoptions PROF="-pg" and .Dq Li options GPROF appeared in the configuration file. This will build a system that includes profiling code; see .Xr kgmon 8 and .Xr gprof 1 . The .Fl p flag is expected to be used for .Dq one-shot profiles of existing systems; for regular profiling, it is probably wiser to make a separate configuration containing the .Li makeoptions line. .Pp The old undocumented .Fl g flag is no longer supported. Instead, use .Dq Li makeoptions DEBUG="-g" and (typically) .Dq Li options KGDB . .Pp The output of .Nm config.new consists of a number of files, principally .Pa ioconf.c , a description of I/O devices that may be attached to the system; and a .Pa Makefile , used by .Xr make 1 in building the kernel. .Pp After running .Nm config.new , it is wise to run .Dq Li make depend in the directory where the new makefile was created. .Nm Config.new prints a reminder of this when it completes. .Pp If .Nm config.new stops due to errors, the problems reported should be corrected and .Nm config.new should be run again. .Nm Config.new attempts to avoid changing the compilation directory if there are configuration errors, but this code is not well-tested, and some problems (such as running out of disk space) are unrecoverable. .Sh SEE ALSO The SYNOPSIS portion of each device in section 4. .Rs .%T "Building 4.4 BSD Systems with Config" .\" .%T "Device Support in 4.4BSD" .Re .Sh HISTORY The .Nm config command appeared in .Bx 4.1 . It was completely revised in .Bx 4.4 .