Re: NFSSERVER dependency on NFS...this seems wrong

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Scott Ellis wrote:

> It looks like somewhere along the road, we made NFSSERVER depend on NFS 
> (ignoring PR kern/40483).  I build an amd64 kernel with NFSSERVER defined, 
> but not NFS, and it links happily.  On boot, however it shows:
>
> WARNING: module error: can't find `nfs'
>
> (Scary, especially since it's not a modular kernel!)
>
> Trying to start mountd yields:
>
> mountd[3066]: kernel NFS support not present; exiting
>
> This dependency seems unintentional, but I don't know how to track it down. 
> Suggestions?

Yup.  I reported this very issue a month or so ago, and the basic answer 
is that, if you have either NFS or NFSSERVER in the kernel, you need to 
have them _both_.  See the discussion in

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2008/12/22/msg006790.html


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