From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 19:53:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-64-219-21-235.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.21.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C26537B402 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:53:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (sageone [192.168.0.5]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2E3rRr20705; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:53:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from admin@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020313215325.01178868@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: admin@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:53:25 -0600 To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" , "FBSDQ" From: Server Admin Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel source location In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe: The recommended way is to place it in "/root/kernels" and then make a link to that location. It's not only closer, but safer in case you decide to delete the directories and forget the kernel config is in there. Here's what a link would look like: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL@ -> /root/kernels/MYKERNEL At 10:22 PM 3.13.2002 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: >Can the GENERIC kernel source be moved to a >directory location closer in, like to /etc and >have the old style make depend && make && make install >process still work? > >What ever possessed someone to put it so far out of the way? > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message