Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:15:28 -0800 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building Message-ID: <20010118071534.031B13E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:34:31 %2B1300." <200101180534.SAA14079@ducky.nz.freebsd.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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