From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Sep 23 15: 7:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8934137B417 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 87276 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Sep 2001 22:07:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 22:07:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:07:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Cc: Subject: Re: Updating kernel build instructions In-Reply-To: <3BAE5814.FA97DA43@owt.com> Message-ID: <20010923170137.Y82018-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Kent Stewart wrote: > Actually, once you have done a buildworld thru installworld, you can > use the old way. It still applies if you haven't done a cvsup. What > you missed reading was I'm sure there are many ways that it could be done. To avoid confusion, the documentation should be recommending only the simplest way. I think that 9.3's statement "If you have installed only the kernel source code, use procedure 1." has been false for > 6 months, according to commit logs. I'm attempting to build a kernel w/o a preexisting /usr/obj right now to double check. I'll post diffs to the page once I've figured out how to word it best. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message