Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:47:03 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd installation order Message-ID: <geblad$fk5$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <4908687B.7020105@gmail.com> <20081029165518.GB7985@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4908A3B1.4070309@gmail.com> <20081029181149.GB8360@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4908ADD4.90000@gmail.com> <20081029190834.GC8360@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4908B955.4050409@gmail.com>
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pwn wrote: [snip] >>> on this page >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html >>> it says: >>> Tip: By default, when you build a custom kernel, all kernel modules will >>> be rebuilt as well. If you want to update a kernel faster or to build >>> only custom modules, you should edit /etc/make.conf before starting to >>> build the kernel: >>> >> >> It would take more time to edit /etc/make.conf than you would >> save in the kernel build. If you are doing lots of kernel >> builds while doing development, maybe then this would be worthwhile, >> but kernel builds do not take enough time on modern machines to >> bother speeding them up trivial amounts. Basically, this is >> saying you can fix things up so that it only builds those modules >> that you are changing when you do a rebuild and skips the others. >> >> This is not relevant to general system performance, just kernel >> builds. [snip] > > i got it =), although, imho kernel builds always affect system > performance.(maybe not in general) > i was just asking myself a away for simplify at extreme this tasks that > sometime can take many time, i guess after configure FreeBSD on a > machine i should copy some configuration files like, /etc/make.conf and > a custom kernel in attempt to avoid repetitive tasks. Note the docs are a little out of date wrt to 7.x and newer. While the make.conf will still be used by gcc when building ports software(s), for the system/kernel/modules this functionality has been moved to /etc/src.conf. Reading man src.conf will explain the details. -Mike
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