From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 27 10: 8:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from subnet.sub.net (subnet.sub.net [212.227.14.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817DB37C0BB for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: from lyxys.ka.sub.org (uucp@localhost) by subnet.sub.net (8.8.8/8.8.8/1.2subnet-linux) with bsmtp id TAA29138; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:08:03 +0200 Received: from localhost (1349 bytes) by lyxys.ka.sub.org via sendmail with P:stdio/R:smart_host/T:inet_uusmtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:01:26 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #1 built 1998-Jun-12) Message-Id: From: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel In-Reply-To: <20000727173356.A49050@mithrandr.moria.org> from Neil Blakey-Milner at "Jul 27, 0 05:33:57 pm" To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:01:26 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed 2000-07-26 (20:27), Chad R. Larson wrote: > > As I recall, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > > > But isn't the whole point of the buildkernel method to build the > > > kernel using the new tools you just created in /usr/obj? If i got > > > this right i think you actually WANT a buildkernel without an existing > > > /usr/obj to fail, hopefully with a message to please make buildworld > > > first. > > That's how it sounds to me. > That's wrong. 'make buildkernel' should DTRT in all situations. Maybe > it doesn't yet, but it should. I tend to disagree. What "TRT" is in a given situation should be decided by the operator and not some piece of software. You could always add a separate make target "newkernel" to build a new kernel with the tools already installed. Wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message