From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 8 22:22:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA25090 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 22:22:45 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA25071 ; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 22:22:39 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA17572; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 06:21:03 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA28828; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 06:21:03 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA03155; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 02:51:54 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510090151.CAA03155@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Kernelconfig.sgml FINALLY FINISHED! To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 02:51:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com, jfieber@indiana.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510082030.NAA13802@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 8, 95 01:30:18 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 742 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > > > Since config(8) has just blown away the entire build directory (and > > will blow away it again next time), make depend is simply a waste of > > time. > I often make ne configuration, > then build from it several dozen times as I edit various sources.. > not having correct dependencies can be a real problem, and cause > untold hours of wasted debugging.. That's your own, yeah, what, stupidity. :) By default, config blows the entire build directory just for such reasons. If you've been disabling this, you are responsible for yourself. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)