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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/FAQ freebsd-faq.sgml
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 13:13:27 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199505171918.FAA27418@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 18, 95 05:18:05 am
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> 
> >  Modified:    share/doc/FAQ  freebsd-faq.sgml
> >  Log:
> >  Change the "make all" into "make depend all" in 6.0.6 (section on kernel
> >  building).
> >  
> >  Submitted by:	Rodney Grimes
> 
> This should be "make clean && make depend && make.  The `make clean'
> step can often be omitted (...) and in any case should be run before
> `config -n', not immediately after.  The `make depend' step can be
> omitted except when the kernel has already been built and some source
> file has changed since `depend' was last made".
> 
> "make depend all" is often wrong and is certainly wrong for a kernel
> immediately after it has been config'ed.  `make' doesn't rescan the
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^
> dependencies after the `make depend' step, so "make depend all" is
> more or less equivalent to "make all; make depend".  "all" is noise
> except when other targets are specifed.
> 

He is right... forgot about that, but since we are not telling the
user about the -n option in this example the sequence as it is now
is valid, but would be safer if written

	make depend && make all		#Do not substitute make depend all

> Bruce
> 


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