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From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
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Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:23:06AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> The way I'm reading mods MFC'ed to Makefile.inc1 by jkh on 1 Dec 2000,
> you can replace both of them with just
> 
> make kernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL
> 
> If you add KERNEL=MYKERNEL to your make.conf, it can simplify it to
> just "make kernel". I created a script to do the full blown way
> because I stood to high odds of flipping a letter in the middle and
> haven't tried "make kernel" to see if it works.

Ok, so substitute "3 more steps" for "2 more steps" :)  In all
seriousness, I can appreciate that simpler is better.  Your point
is well taken :)  I don't think it makes a heck of a lot of
difference, but I understand where you're coming from :)


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