From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 27 02:47:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA25311 for current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 02:47:42 -0700 Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@[205.164.220.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA25302 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 02:47:36 -0700 Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id FAA22235; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 05:47:31 -0400 From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199509270947.FAA22235@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: kernel versions and config's rm -rf To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 05:47:29 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509270144.SAA04093@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 26, 95 06:44:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1329 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Make that three old farts in agreement :-)... Four... I'm 41. > I think age will be the splitting factor here :-). Those of us who have > been around config(8) for years have no problems understanding why some > things just don't go right and just how to blow away the right .o files > and get back rather quickly. Others who have not been doing this for > years simply take the slow, but guaranteed to work way out of rm'ing > the whole pile :-(. > > Maybe if they had to build BSD 4.2 kernels on VAX 11/730's they might > appreciate our point a little more... with the event of boxes that > can compile the whole world in 3 hrs and a kernel in 8 minutes you > tend to start getting rather sloppy about dependency tree maintenance :-(. > I never built 4.2 on an 11/730 -- Installing VMS on 'em was enough pain for me. However, I did a make world on a 386sx/25 with 8mb of memory and it took a couple of days to finish. I can't wait for Micronics to ship my 486 board back from repair. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |