From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 10:20:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15959 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15952; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:20:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01307; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:20:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:20:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Uncle Flatline cc: Uncle Flatline , quimica.ufpr.br@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compile my kernel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Uncle Flatline wrote: > > I thought math wasn't permitted in an option. Does that actually spit out > > the right thing? > > I THOUGHT it did... What's the best way to check? And if it DOESN'T do the > right thing, why have it in LINT, when > > options MAXMEM=131072 # 131072 = (128*1024) = 128M I've known people to have problems with the system not recognizing the math version but working fine with the integer. YMMV. You can check it by compiling a kernel one way, thn the other and see if it finds all your RAM. > would get the point across? (This is why god invented comments.) Or is this > another one of those things like having a chsh that drops unencrypted > passwords in the passwd file? ;-) Don't go there. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message