From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 10:17:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE1837B42C; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA57778; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:17:17 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mike Meyer Cc: Maxim Sobolev , Donn Miller , Brooks Davis , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hints static wiring Message-ID: <20000828101717.C23712@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <867l92lw8e.wl@tkc.att.ne.jp> <20000827184037.A22500@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <14762.8323.382969.782508@guru.mired.org> <39AA3882.914FC0A0@cvzoom.net> <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> <39AA5DC6.8D73081B@FreeBSD.org> <14762.24829.363032.115605@guru.mired.org> <39AA6699.41E12730@FreeBSD.org> <14762.26659.335.344828@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14762.26659.335.344828@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:24:50AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:24:50AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Well, yeah, I'd expect that. I'm still trying to figure out what > *good* failing to compile unless there's an empty /boot/device.hints The kernel does not fail to *BUILD*. ``make install'' is what fails. I agree that the requirement is somewhat anonying. But, it is better to have this slight anonyance than for many to to install and boot a kernel that would be broken. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message