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Date:      Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:23:29 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject:   Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks..
Message-ID:  <20010624132329.A507@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010623224451.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:44:51PM -0700
References:  <20010623225526.A564@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <XFMail.010623224451.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:44:51PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 23-Jun-01 Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:23:35PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >> > make buildkernel is rather easy way to work it around: in
> >> > any case object tree is machine-dependent, and one yet
> >> > another directory does not destroy anything. ;|
> >> 
> >> The "make buildkernel" approach sucks for incremental
> >> builds, since you are unable to avoid the "config" run
> >> each time, and a lot of unnecessary stuff gets compiled
> >> again because of opt_*.h files whose contents have not
> >> changed (even if you defeat the clean of the compile
> >> directory).
> > 
> > About the release process, you are right, it is a bit harder
> > to restart without some tweaks, but the buildkernel target
> > is about as restartable as it can be.  (I really don't think
> > anyone would ever advocate skipping the config(8) or
> > the 'make depend' stage..)
> 
> Actually, make depend takes a relatively long time, and when
> I'm hacking on a kernel, I don't want to wait 15 minutes to
> build a kernel after changing one file.  I compile kernels
> w/o config or make depend a lot.

OK, so if you're really really sure your changes do not affect
the dependency graph, use -DNOKERNELDEPEND :)

G'luck,
Peter

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