| | 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
| | 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement |
| | 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. |
| | 4 | .\" |
| | 5 | .\" @(#)config.8 6.2 (Berkeley) %G% |
| | 6 | .\" |
| | 7 | .TH CONFIG 8 "" |
| | 8 | .UC 4 |
| | 9 | .SH NAME |
| | 10 | config \- build system configuration files |
| | 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| | 12 | .B /etc/config |
| | 13 | [ |
| | 14 | .B \-p |
| | 15 | ] |
| | 16 | .I SYSTEM_NAME |
| | 17 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| | 18 | .PP |
| | 19 | .I Config |
| | 20 | builds a set of system configuration files from a short file which describes |
| | 21 | the sort of system that is being configured. It also takes as input a file |
| | 22 | which tells |
| | 23 | .I config |
| | 24 | what files are needed to generate a system. |
| | 25 | This can be augmented by a configuration specific set of files |
| | 26 | that give alternate files for a specific machine. |
| | 27 | (see the FILES section below) |
| | 28 | If the |
| | 29 | .B \-p |
| | 30 | option is supplied, |
| | 31 | .I config |
| | 32 | will configure a system for profiling; c.f. |
| | 33 | .IR kgmon (8) |
| | 34 | and |
| | 35 | .IR gprof (1). |
| | 36 | .PP |
| | 37 | .I Config |
| | 38 | should be run from the |
| | 39 | .B conf |
| | 40 | subdirectory of the system source (usually /sys/conf). |
| | 41 | Its argument is the name of a system configuration file |
| | 42 | containing device specifications, configuration options |
| | 43 | and other system parameters for one system configuration. |
| | 44 | .I Config |
| | 45 | assumes that there is already a directory |
| | 46 | .I "../SYSTEM_NAME" |
| | 47 | created and it places all its output files in there. |
| | 48 | The output of |
| | 49 | .I config |
| | 50 | consists of a number of files; for the VAX, they are: |
| | 51 | .B ioconf.c |
| | 52 | contains a description |
| | 53 | of what I/O devices are attached to the system,; |
| | 54 | .B ubglue.s |
| | 55 | contains a set of interrupt service routines for devices |
| | 56 | attached to the UNIBUS; |
| | 57 | .B ubvec.s |
| | 58 | contains offsets into a structure used for counting per-device interrupts; |
| | 59 | .B Makefile |
| | 60 | is a file used by |
| | 61 | .IR make (1) |
| | 62 | in building the system; a set of header files contain definitions of |
| | 63 | the number of various devices that will be compiled into the system; |
| | 64 | and a set of swap configuration files contain definitions for |
| | 65 | the disk areas to be used for swapping, the root file system, |
| | 66 | argument processing, and system dumps. |
| | 67 | .PP |
| | 68 | After running |
| | 69 | .IR config , |
| | 70 | it is necessary to run ``make depend'' in the directory where the new makefile |
| | 71 | was created. |
| | 72 | .I Config |
| | 73 | prints a reminder of this when it completes. |
| | 74 | .PP |
| | 75 | If any other error messages are produced by |
| | 76 | .I config, |
| | 77 | the problems in the configuration file should be corrected and |
| | 78 | .I config |
| | 79 | should be run again. |
| | 80 | Attempts to compile a system that had configuration errors |
| | 81 | are likely to meet with failure. |
| | 82 | .SH FILES |
| | 83 | .nf |
| | 84 | /sys/conf/Makefile.vax generic makefile for the VAX |
| | 85 | /sys/conf/files list of common files system is built from |
| | 86 | /sys/conf/files.vax list of VAX specific files |
| | 87 | /sys/conf/devices.vax name to major device mapping file for the VAX |
| | 88 | /sys/conf/files.ERNIE list of files specific to ERNIE system |
| | 89 | .fi |
| | 90 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| | 91 | ``Building 4.3BSD UNIX System with Config'' |
| | 92 | .br |
| | 93 | The SYNOPSIS portion of each device in section 4. |
| | 94 | .SH BUGS |
| | 95 | The line numbers reported in error messages are usually off by one. |
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