From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 16 22:43:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96CB16A41C for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 22:43:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.village.org (vc4-2-0-87.dsl.netrack.net [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C21B43D45 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 22:43:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6GMdmHr010000; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:39:48 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:40:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20050716.164031.87741040.imp@bsdimp.com> To: minimarmot@gmail.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <47d0403c050716131672b1d382@mail.gmail.com> References: <47d0403c050716131672b1d382@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel build procedure for 5.4->6.0Beta X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 22:43:05 -0000 In message: <47d0403c050716131672b1d382@mail.gmail.com> Ben Kaduk writes: : List -- I am in the process of upgrading via source build from : 5.4-Release to 6.0Beta, and I am curious about a discrepancy in the : kernel build procedure. The handbook : has as a normal build procedure for a regular update to "make : buildkernel; make installkernel", whereas UPDATING has just "make : kernel". UPDATING, of course, has precedence, as stated in the : handbook, but I am curious what (if any) difference : there is in the two procedures, and why different procedures are : preferred for these (seemingly similar) situations. : Can anyone enlighten me? make kernel is the same thing as make buildkernel installkernel. UPDATING likely got changed after this was noiced, but the handbook didn't. Warner