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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 18:46:53 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: current@freebsd.org
Subject: kernel dependency bugs
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1. When an option is removed from conf/options or i386/conf/options.i386,
   the option isn't removed from the opt_xxx.h header even when other
   options in the header are changed.  This is because config updates
   the headers in place and goes to a lot of trouble to preserve the
   parts of them that it doesn't understand.  The simpler method of
   creating temporary headers and renaming the chanegd ones would work
   better.

2. Config always creates config.c.  This breaks recent improvements in
   option procesing - config was careful not to touch anything if the
   configuration was unchanged.  The more complicated method of creating
   a temporary config.c and renaming it if there was a change would work
   better.

Bruce