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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:25:59 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WARNING: need to do a 'config -r'
Message-ID:  <372825A7.1BB71C32@newsguy.com>
References:  <199904290644.QAA02237@lightning.itga.com.au>

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Gregory Bond wrote:
> 
> Normally, I do
>  cvsup
>  make buildworld
>  make installworld
>  mergemaster
>  check my kernel config files against changes to LINT and/or GENERIC
>  config -g Kernel
>  cd compile/Kernel
>  make depend all
        ^^^^^^^^^^
>  make install
>  reboot.

> I had to do a 'config -r -g Kernel' and rebuild the kernel from absolute
> scratch before I could get a bootable kernel.  It seems something in the
> kernel sources changed but in a way too subtle for make depend to discover...

Not really. Make depend generates the .depend files that will be
read on the next run of make. Ie, they were not used in the
following target "all". If you had run instead:

make depend
make all install

everything would have worked.

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	"Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his
predictions have come true yet."




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