From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 7: 5:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2804937B422 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 07:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29397 invoked by uid 0); 24 Sep 2000 14:05:14 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 24 Sep 2000 14:05:14 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000924085801.00b214f0@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 09:00:54 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: LAN question In-Reply-To: <86256964.000E9189.00@main.reveregroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That step wasn't in the book because it was an error. Greg regularly sends out errata and addenda to "The Complete FreeBSD" on this list. I've included the relevant section below: Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition Last revision: 2 August 1999 Page 362 ________ Replace the text at the top of the page with: Next, change to the build directory and build the kernel: # cd ../../compile/FREEBIE # make depend # make The make depend is needed even if the directory has just been created: apart from creating dependency information, it also creates some files needed for the build. Thanks to Mark Ovens for drawing this to my attention, and to Francisco Reyes and Bill Fumerola for pointing out that it still wasn't fixed in the third edition. At 10:37 PM 9/23/00 -0400, mgruver@reveregroup.com, you wrote: >You know, I think you are right (if fact I am sure your are because the >previous >step reminds you of this every time), but I don't know why or what the "make >depend" does. Greg Lehey doesn't have this step in his book, so when I >saw the >prompt I made the decision to follow the book and ignore it. I haven't >noticed >anything wrong yet. > >Can anyone tell me what will go wrong and when? > >Mike > >Janko wrote: > >Between step 7 and 8 should be a step 7a. "make depend" isn't it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message