From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 9 13:18:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F81C37B5C6 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00206; Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:17:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3991BC67.F506CE2F@urx.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:17:43 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: j mckitrick Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel compile between cvsup's References: <20000809144455.C31619@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG j mckitrick wrote: > > just to be sure.... > > after cvsupping, i *always* have to follow this procedure, correct? > > make buildworld > make buildkernel Yes, except I think this just built GENERIC and not KERNEL=MYKERNEL. > make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL > shutdown (single user) > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot > > now, if i am just hacking around with my kernel, changing the configuration > file, playing with drivers, testing code, etc, i can use the old method, > correct? > > cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > config MYKERNEL > cd ../../compile MYKERNEL / ^^^ Hopefully these are just typo's but I have aliases that take me to these places. If you do an ll (ls -lA) from /, you will see that /sys/... is the same as /usr/src/sys/... > make depend && make && make all install > > or do i still need to use the new target 'make buildkernel' which seems to > take much longer? if i must follow the second, is there a way to shorten > the build time? I've done it both ways. I haven't done a "make all install" but just a "make install". I added something and the make install loaded the modules. So, I don't know if you are saving any time. Kent > > jm > -- > i'm tired of signatures. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message