From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 20 23:12:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B86B37B405 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:12:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdn-ar-008dcwashp279.dialsprint.net ([63.178.90.209] helo=moo.holy.cow) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16zAa6-0005ev-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:12:14 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 668F650B84; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 02:14:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 02:14:16 -0400 From: parv To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: make.conf confusing verbage Message-ID: <20020421061416.GA48440@moo.holy.cow> Reply-To: f-stable Mail-Followup-To: "Jason C. Wells" , FreeBSD-stable References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message , wrote Jason C. Wells thusly... > > >From /etc/defaults/make.conf: > > #To build sys/modules when building the world (our old way of doing things > #MODULES_WITH_WORLD=true # do not build modules when building kernel > > Does this cause us to "not build modules" as the second comment says? > > I desire to NOT build modules. as i understand the comment & variable name, that means module will be built only when "make buildworld" (or, "make world") is run; further, modules will not be built when _only_ building a kernel. it's the negative variable names which make me stop to think about their purpose. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message