Re: Trying to compile theNVIDIA driver ........ however no ^bsd.sysdir.mk^

In reply to: louis.freebsd_a_xs4all.nl: "Trying to compile theNVIDIA driver ........ however no ^bsd.sysdir.mk^ "
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From: Chris <bsd-lists_at_bsdforge.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:26:43 UTC

On 2022-11-07 07:21, louis.freebsd@xs4all.nl wrote:
> As the title is allready tells, I try to compile and install a NVIDIA driver 
> for
> my 960 video card.
> 
> So I downloaded the driver from the NVIDIA site and tried to compile. That … 
> does not work
> 
> 
> Below the messages I get. It seems that the makefile expects bsd.sysdir.mk, 
> which
> is not there
> 
> (I verified)
> 
> How to fix this!?
> 
> 
> Below the error messages.
> 
> Louis
> 
> make[2]: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.sysdir.mk" line 15: Unable to locate the kernel 
> source
> tree. Set SYSDIR to override.
> 
This message is trying to tell you that there is nothing in your /usr/src
It needs (at least) headers from the version of source of the system you're 
running.

HTH

--chris
> 
> make: stopped in /usr/myshare/NV_driver/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-515.76
> 
> [root@mysys /usr/myshare/NV_driver/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-515.76]#