Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:01:26 +0200 (CEST) From: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel Message-ID: <m13Hr2E-000k57C@lyxys.ka.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <20000727173356.A49050@mithrandr.moria.org> from Neil Blakey-Milner at "Jul 27, 0 05:33:57 pm"
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> 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
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