From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 15:12:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D1537C6A9 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.222]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.4) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:13:45 -0700 Message-ID: <3966556D.237B67DC@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 15:10:53 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Lint^^ , "Chad R. Larson" , Warner Losh , cjm2@earthling.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make: don't know how to make dwarf1.c. Stop References: <200007072159.e67LxPn14907@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:04:34 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Lint^^ > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > the old standard method is working fine for me... i would also like to > > know if one method is `better' than the other, as i have no problem > > sticking with the old method... > > As I understand things, the idea is that the "old" method of > explicitly issuing a config command and then doing makes in the > compile directory should work fine EXCEPT after a buildworld. The > reason is that that method builds the kernel using the currently > installed files, not the new objects just built. The kernel, even if > it builds, is going to be out of sync with the system as soon as you > "make installworld". > > OTOH, "make buildkernel KERNEL=name" and "make installkernel KERNEL=name" > in /usr/src will build the kernel from the newly built, but not yet > installed objects and the sources in the source tree. This means that > you are booting the new kernel "single user" to install the new system > and everything stays in sync. > > 1. Does that make sense? > 2. Is it correct? It worked for me on the current 4.0-Stable. I have real problems committing to a new world before I test the /kernel and the buildkernel/installkernel lets me do that. I just have to get used to typing all of the extra text :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message