From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 11 23:57:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17768 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17756 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:57:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA21761; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:57:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: george cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make depend In-Reply-To: <357A63CF.128F@kf7nn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, george wrote: > I copied this from the hand book and realized that when i make my > world i dont do a make depend is this bad and what is make depend? The make depend step builds the dependency tree for the kernel files. YOu don't loose anything by not doing it (and I think it does it automatically if it hasn't been done) but if you update the source files the depencedncy tree is now out of date. In the end, some kernel files may not get built. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message