From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 10:46:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA05583 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:46:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (CEDB.DPCSYS.com [207.124.154.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA05578 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:46:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id SAA12642; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 18:25:29 GMT Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:25:28 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: "Thomas D. Dean" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: reconfiguring kernal In-Reply-To: <33079C26.7D93@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I have always used "make depend" This may come from other OS's. > The "make depend" step makes the build safer. The handbook says to run make depend too. But since config just created the source directory and we don't have any stale .o's laying around what dependencies are there that could be missed if you don't run make depend? If I'm leaving myself open to potential problems I'd like to know about it. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82