From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 10 7: 5: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EDC37B53A; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:04:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kcilink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCF0E8D1; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:04:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kcilink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA14809; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:04:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kci.kcilink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14697.55301.614418.390096@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:04:53 -0400 (EDT) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "KK" == Kris Kennaway writes: KK> Subject basically says it all. "make buildkernel KERNEL=" and KK> "make installkernel KERNEL=" (or set KERNEL in /etc/make.conf or KK> the environment, where KERNEL is the name of the kernel to build (GENERIC, KK> etc)) are what you should always be using to build your kernels, unless KK> you know what you're doing. So you're saying that even after upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 you should use make buildkernel? That seems counter to what has been discussed before, and is way non-BSD-ish. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message