From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 17 21:34:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E40737B400; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:34:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA14079; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:34:32 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <200101180534.SAA14079@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary / FreshPorts To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:34:31 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: too much confusion over kernel building Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Over the past few weeks and months, I've seen far too many people using "make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL" when they should have used "config MYKERNEL". The following PR is a move to help solve that problem: Please read and comment and I'll submit amendments as appropriate. The PR was submitted on 8 Jan and I've not had any feedback yet. All following to freebsd-doc@freebsd.org (cc'd to me) please. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message