From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 15: 4:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B66437B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5AE43E58 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:04:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from sdn-ar-004dcwashp025.dialsprint.net ([206.133.21.137] helo=moo.holy.cow) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Uwud-0006cu-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:04:48 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6F26C50DF6; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:07:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:07:28 -0400 From: parv To: f-q Subject: why/how new kernel build method succeeds after old method fails? Message-ID: <20020717220728.GA9568@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: f-q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG now and then i see messages on -questions & -stable list stating that "old" (config && cd && make) kernel building method fails while the "new" (make buildkernel) method succeeds afterwords. i would have expected to new method to fail too. could anybody explain the phenomenon? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message