From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 17:57:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E58F37B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:57:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CBB43F3F for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:57:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20030202015711053003ki95e>; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 01:57:11 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h121vA3M003668; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:57:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h121v9me003665; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:57:09 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why should I use `config;make depend;make...` instead of `make kernel` when building from a stock source tree? (ref. Handbook sec. 9.3) References: <3E3C77F0.6050805@pantherdragon.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Feb 2003 20:57:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3E3C77F0.6050805@pantherdragon.org> Message-ID: <44vg03la16.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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 Darren Pilgrim writes: > There are two sets of commands you can use to build a kernel in FreeBSD: > > "Procedure 1" is the old way: config, make depend, make, make > install. "Procedure 2" is the make kernel sequence from makeworld. > > Section 9.3 of the Handbook says I should use procedure 1 if I haven't > updated my source tree. I can understand then need to use procedure 2 > if I've updated my source tree, but why shouldn't I use it with an > unmodified tree? There's no reason you shouldn't. That section of the handbook explicitly says that you can use either procedure in that case. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message