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Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> 
   of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:34:31 +1300." <200101180534.SAA14079@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> 
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:15:28 -0800
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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> 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".

I'm not quite sure we should be advocating using the older, `config
MYKERN` method.  It doesn't really have any advantages over the newer
one, and suggesting different ones for different purposes will only
confuse the novices, IMO.  Plus, `make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL` is
quite a bit simpler than,

      config MYKERNEL && cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL && make depend && make

So, my question is, why use the older one?  I can understand why
people still use it because they've been doing it that way for the
last X years, but that's no reason to teach it to new people.

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org


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