On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> I've been building custom kernels for FreeBSD 12.0, and have noticed
> a message on the console, during boot, that I haven't seen from prior
> versions. It doesn't affect the operation of the system, but just for
> the sake of cleanliness (and to make sure it doesn't cause trouble
later)
> I'd like to clean it up. The message is
>
> devmatch: can't read linker hints file
>
> Because I'm building a stripped-down kernel without klds or debugging
> symbols in it, the kernel build doesn't produce a linker.hints file,
> which I assume is what's causing the complaint. Is there a reason why
> I should generate such a file? Or, if I don't really need to do so,
> is there a way to suppress the message?
>
Disable devmatch. It's useless without klds.
Warner