From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 17 23:23:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.sc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106A137B402; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:23:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by mail5.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:22:48 -0500 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by sc.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0I7Nh707313; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:23:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmaddox) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:23:43 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: Dima Dorfman Cc: dan@langille.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building Message-ID: <20010118022343.A7286@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Mail-Followup-To: Dima Dorfman , dan@langille.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010118071534.031B13E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010118071534.031B13E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:15:28PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:15:28PM -0800, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > 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. It seems to me that most of the confused are usually just trying to recompile a custom kernel to add, for example, sound support. It's ridiculous to make these people do a full world build just to be able to hear sound from their soundcard. Obviously, if you have updated your source tree from, it's very dangerous NOT to do the buildworld - buildkernel - installkernel - installworld dance. But it's silly to advocate that someone who just installed 4.2, and simply wants to hear an MP3 must do a full buildworld... Just my $0.02. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message