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Date:      Mon, 9 Oct 1995 02:51:53 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com, jfieber@indiana.edu
Subject:   Re: Kernelconfig.sgml FINALLY FINISHED!
Message-ID:  <199510090151.CAA03155@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199510082030.NAA13802@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 8, 95 01:30:18 pm

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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. ;-)



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