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.Dd September 1, 2015
.Dt CONFIG 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm config
.Nd build kernel compilation directories
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl dMPpSv
.Op Fl b Ar builddir
.Op Fl D Ar var=value
.Op Fl s Ar srcdir
.Op Fl U Ar value
.Op Ar config-file
.Nm
.Fl x
.Op Ar kernel-file
.Nm
.Fl L
.Op Fl v
.Op Fl s Ar srcdir
.Op Ar config-file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
In its first synopsis form,
.Nm
creates a kernel build directory from the machine description file
.Ar config-file ,
which describes the system to configure.
Refer to section
.Sx KERNEL BUILD CONFIGURATION
for the details of that use
of
.Nm .
.Pp
In its second synopsis form,
.Nm
takes the binary kernel
.Ar kernel-file
as its single argument (aside from the mandatory
.Fl x
flag), then extracts the embedded configuration file (if any) and
writes it to standard output.
If
.Ar kernel-file
is not given, and the system is not running
.Nx
an error is printed.
On systems running
.Nx
the booted kernel is looked up using the
.Xr sysctl 3
variable
.Dv machdep.booted_kernel
and if that is not found,
.Dv _PATH_UNIX
.Pq Pa /netbsd
is used.
Configuration data will be available if the given kernel was compiled
with either
.Va INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE
or
.Va INCLUDE_JUST_CONFIG
options.
.Pp
In its third synopsis form,
.Nm
is a tool for the kernel developer and generates a
.Dq lint
configuration file to be used during regression testing.
Refer to section
.Sx LINT CONFIGURATION
for the details of that use of
.Nm .
.Pp
.Nm
accepts the following parameters:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl b Ar builddir
Use
.Ar builddir
as the kernel build directory, instead of computing and creating one
automatically.
.It Fl d
Issue diagnostic output for debugging problems with
.Nm
itself.
More
.Fl d
options (currently up to 5) produce more output.
.It Fl D Ar var=value
Define a makeoptions variable to the given value.
This is equivalent to appending a
.Li makeoptions var=value
line to the config file.
.It Fl L
Generate a lint configuration.
See section
.Sx LINT CONFIGURATION
for details.
.It Fl M
Do modular build (experimental).
Instead of linking all object files (*.o) at once, collect related object
files into an intermediate relocatable object (*.ko), then link those *.ko
files into the final kernel.
This changes the order of objects in the kernel binary.
.It Fl P
Pack locators to save space in the resulting kernel binary.
The amount of space saved that way is so small that this option should
be considered historical, and of no actual use.
.It Fl p
Generate a build directory suited for kernel profiling.
However, this options should be avoided in favor of the relevant options
inside the configuration file as described in section
.Sx KERNEL BUILD CONFIGURATION .
.It Fl s Ar srcdir
Point to the top of the kernel source tree.
It must be an absolute path when
.Nm
is used to prepare a kernel build directory, but can be relative
when it is used in combination with the
.Fl L
flag.
.It Fl S
Use suffix rules and build objects under subdirectories (experimental).
.It Fl U Ar var
Undefine the makeoption
.Ar var .
This is equivalent to appending the line
.Li no makeoptions var
to the config file.
.It Fl v
Increase verbosity by enabling some more warnings.
.It Fl x
Extract the configuration embedded in a kernel binary.
.El
.Ss KERNEL BUILD CONFIGURATION
There are several different ways to run the
.Nm
program.
The traditional way is to run
.Nm
from the
.Pa conf
subdirectory of the machine-specific directory of the system source
(usually
.Pa /sys/arch/MACHINE/conf ,
where
.Pa MACHINE
is one of
.Pa vax ,
.Pa hp300 ,
and so forth), and to specify as the
.Ar config-file
the name of a machine description file located in that directory.
.Nm
will by default create files in the directory
.Pa ../compile/SYSTEMNAME ,
where
.Pa SYSTEMNAME
is the last path component of
.Ar config-file .
.Nm
will assume that the top-level kernel source directory is located four
directories above the build directory.
.Pp
Another way is to create the build directory yourself, place the
machine description file in the build directory with the name
.Pa CONFIG ,
and run
.Nm
from within the build directory without specifying a
.Ar config-file .
.Nm
will then by default create files in the current directory.
If you run
.Nm
this way, you must specify the location of the top-level kernel source
directory using the
.Fl s
option or by using the
.Dq Li source
directive at the beginning of the machine description file.
.Pp
Finally, you can specify the build directory for
.Nm
and run it from anywhere.
You can specify a build directory with the
.Fl b
option or by using the
.Dq Li build
directive at the beginning of the machine description file.
You must specify the location of the top-level kernel source directory if you
specify a build directory.
.Pp
If
.Ar config-file
is a binary kernel,
.Nm
will try to extract the configuration file embedded into it, which will
be present if that kernel was built either with
.Va INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE
or
.Va INCLUDE_JUST_CONFIG
options.
This work mode requires you to manually specify a build directory with
the
.Fl b
option, which implies the need to provide a source tree too.
.Pp
If the
.Fl p
option is supplied,
.Pa .PROF
is appended to the default compilation directory name, and
.Nm
acts as if the lines
.Dq Li makeoptions PROF="-pg"
and
.Dq Li options GPROF
appeared in the machine description 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 create a separate machine description file 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
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 ,
it is wise to run
.Dq Li make depend
in the directory where the new makefile
was created.
.Nm
prints a reminder of this when it completes.
.Pp
If
.Nm
stops due to errors, the problems reported should be corrected and
.Nm
should be run again.
.Nm
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.
.Ss LINT CONFIGURATION
A so-called
.Dq lint
configuration should include everything from the kernel that can
possibly be selected.
The rationale is to provide a way to reach all the code a user might
select, in order to make sure all options and drivers compile without
error for a given source tree.
.Pp
When used with the
.Fl L
flag,
.Nm
takes the regular configuration file
.Ar config-file
and prints on the standard output a configuration file that includes
.Ar config-file ,
selects all options and file-systems the user can possibly select,
and defines an instance of every possible attachment as described by
the kernel option definition files used by
.Ar config-file .
.Pp
The resulting configuration file is meant as a way to select all
possible features in order to test that each of them compiles.
It is not meant to result in a kernel binary that can run on any
hardware.
.Pp
Unlike the first synopsis form, the provided
.Ar srcdir
is relative to the current working directory.
In the first synopsis form, it is relative to the build directory.
.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
.Pp
.Xr options 4 ,
.Xr config 5 ,
.Xr config 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 4.1 .
It was completely revised in
.Bx 4.4 .
The
.Fl x
option appeared in
.Nx 2.0 .
The
.Fl L
option appeared in
.Nx 5.0 .