From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 10 14:44:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566C437B5A0 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kcilink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E33BE896 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:44:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kcilink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA75697; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:44:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kci.kcilink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14698.17321.468903.642899@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:44:09 -0400 (EDT) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels In-Reply-To: References: <14697.55301.614418.390096@onceler.kcilink.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "KK" == Kris Kennaway writes: KK> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: >> So you're saying that even after upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 you should >> use make buildkernel? That seems counter to what has been discussed >> before, and is way non-BSD-ish. KK> Buildkernel internally handles tool dependency problems, where the kernel KK> build depends on tools which were built by make installworld, but not yet KK> installed on the system. The alternative is to post a detailed list of So if I don't have a "buildworld" /usr/obj tree sitting around, I am not supported to build a new kernel for my existing system, say, to add a new SCSI controller to a server? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message