Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 16:59:22 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Kenny" <mail@crshjnke.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: same problem trying to run make on all kernel configs. error and kernel config included Message-ID: <001901c1290a$f7e9f000$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15231.16426.743563.125704@guru.mired.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer >Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 9:27 PM >> Yeah its the weirdest thing... >> Maybe something has changed since 4.2-4.3? >> I am following the exact directions from >> >http://www.defcon1.org/html/Software_Articles/Commands-Flags/cvsup-build/cvs >> up-build.html > >This site is badly out of date. In general, I don't trust the >alternative sites that attempt to duplicate the information in the >handbook. They typically aren't audited by members of the FreeBSD >team, and don't have as many people checking them and reporting >problems - assuming they have a PR system at all. The net result is >that they tend to get out of date, and stay that way. Just duplicating the handbook isn't the problem. The problem is that the person attempting to do the duplication of information isn't doing it responsibly. >If the same >effort had been invested in improving the online docs, everyone would >be better off. > In this case that's correct - because the website author obviously only wanted to spend a little bit of time to throw together a website, and apparently once he put togher a running website, has lost interest in keeping it maintained. So, now we have a site out there that rather than solving problems, is creating more. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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