From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 27 8:34:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B51A37BB9A for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:34:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13HpfZ-000CmR-00; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:33:57 +0200 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:33:57 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: Wolfgang Zenker , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel Message-ID: <20000727173356.A49050@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200007270327.UAA23756@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200007270327.UAA23756@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:27:31PM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ 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. > We've also created a situation where space-limited folks =can't= > update just kernel sources. As I said originally, one doesn't need a populated /usr/obj to do a 'make buildkernel', with only one minor exception. Also note we officially "don't support" out-of-sync kernel and userland, but we do allow people to shoot themselves in the foot. > 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. That's why 'make buildkernel' should always work. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message