Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:27:31 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) Cc: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel Message-ID: <200007270327.UAA23756@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <m13Hd2e-000kRFC@lyxys.ka.sub.org> from Wolfgang Zenker at "Jul 27, 0 04:04:56 am"
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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. We've also created a situation where space-limited folks =can't= update just kernel sources. The installation process offers a configuration with binaries for everything and sources for the kernel (so you can build a custom one, I suppose). If the assembler language syntax changes like it just did, for example, you'll have to choose between fetching the whole thing, or not fixing kernel bugs. Or be pretty smart about the innards of the build process and the filesystem layout--exactly the skills the person who installed kernel sources only 'cause he wanted to make a customized kernel won't have. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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