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author | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-09-15 06:37:10 +0000 |
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committer | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-09-15 06:37:10 +0000 |
commit | b8c46235c5b5fcd433f224674a9be99e69acc8ee (patch) | |
tree | 1007228a0adbd7ca7cc3ddf18308603f1351f20e /usr.sbin/config/config.8 | |
parent | 130c7bee5c488aa3c51a2fbd042f556666891880 (diff) | |
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Use err(3), add usage(). -Wall clean.
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/config/config.8 b/usr.sbin/config/config.8 index 5d65920..2cd8699 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/config/config.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/config/config.8 @@ -42,16 +42,15 @@ .Op Fl gpn .Ar SYSTEM_NAME .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Pp This is the old version of the -.Nm config +.Nm program. It understands the old autoconfiguration scheme used on the HP300, i386, DECstation, and derivative platforms. The new version of config is used with the SPARC platform. Only the version of -.Nm config +.Nm applicable to the architecture that you are running will be installed on your machine. .Pp @@ -62,45 +61,33 @@ which describes the system to configure. A second file tells -.Nm config +.Nm what files are needed to generate a system and can be augmented by configuration specific set of files -that give alternate files for a specific machine. +that give alternate files for a specific machine (see the .Sx FILES -section below) +section below). .Pp Available options and operands: .Pp .Bl -tag -width SYSTEM_NAME .It Fl g -If the -.Fl g -option is supplied, -.Nm config -will configure a system for debugging. +Configure a system for debugging. .It Fl p -If the -.Fl p -option is supplied, -.Nm config -will configure a system for profiling; for example, +Configure a system for profiling; for example, .Xr kgmon 8 and .Xr gprof 1 . If two or more .Fl p options are supplied, -.Nm config +.Nm will configure a system for high resolution profiling. .It Fl n -If the -.Fl n -flag is specified, -.Nm config -will not remove the old compile directory (see below). +Do not remove the old compile directory (see below). .It Ar SYSTEM_NAME -specifies the name of the system configuration file +Specifies the name of the system configuration file containing device specifications, configuration options and other system parameters for one system configuration. .El @@ -116,12 +103,12 @@ will create the directory as necessary and place all output files there. If the directory already exists, it will be removed first unless the -.Pa -n +.Fl n flag was specified or the environment variable -.Nm NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER +.Ev NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER is set. The output of -.Nm config +.Nm consists of a number of files; for the .Tn i386 , they are: @@ -155,7 +142,7 @@ prints a reminder of this when it completes. If any other error messages are produced by .Nm config , the problems in the configuration file should be corrected and -.Nm config +.Nm should be run again. Attempts to compile a system that had configuration errors are likely to fail. @@ -165,7 +152,7 @@ entire input file is embedded in the new kernel. This means that .Xr strings 1 can be used to extract it from a kernel. .Pp -strings | grep ___ will print just the configure information. +Strings | grep ___ will print just the configure information. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386 -compact .It Pa /sys/conf/files |