From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 9 12:23:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA8F14E95 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:23:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id MAA09201; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Wed, 09 Jun 1999 12:16:47 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:16:47 -0700 (PDT) From: X-Sender: kip@luna To: "I'Khala" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quetion about kernel building on 3.2-stable In-Reply-To: <19990609151945.A78024@phoenix.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: ikhala@phoenix.cl.msu.edu,stable@freebsd.org X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mine is smaller: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2476260 Jun 6 01:48 /kernel* On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, I'Khala wrote: > Hello, > I wanted to build a kernel based on entries in /boot/loader.conf. I happened > to comment out the following line from my kernel config file: > > config kernel root on da0 > > and after doing a "config", and "make depend", the "make" would fail silently. I guess > I really shouldn't say fail, but the prompt would come back immediately without > building a kernel, so in that sense it failed. Once I uncommented the config line > all was well. Has anyone noticed this before with stable. Removing the config line > works in -current. My last cvsup was from May 21st > > phoenix.cl.msu.edu:jfgreen> what /kernel > /kernel: > FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #3: Fri May 21 18:27:19 EDT 1999 > > thanxs ... > > #;^) > > P.S. > I've also noticed that my kernel is rather large, i.e.: > > phoenix.cl.msu.edu:ikhala> ls -l /kernel > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8736632 May 21 18:39 /kernel* > > Is this normal? I ask because kernels on my -current boxen are much > smaller even if I staticly link klds and include debug symbols ... :( > > -- > I'Khala ikhala@msu.edu > 308 Computer Laboratory ikhala@pager.msu.edu > Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~ikhala > East Lansing, MI 48824 +1.517.355.4500 x.151 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message