From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 11:17:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F5B037B719 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:17:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 23237 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2001 20:17:49 +0100 Received: from bb-62-5-7-15.bb.tninet.se (HELO bb-62-5-7-15-bb.tninet.se) (62.5.7.15) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 16 Mar 2001 20:17:49 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: "undergra" , Subject: Re: KERNEL vs KERNCONF Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:18:10 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <01cc01c0ab58$59adad80$0164a8c0@daemon> In-Reply-To: <01cc01c0ab58$59adad80$0164a8c0@daemon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01031620181000.76835@bb-62-5-7-15-bb.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 13 March 2001 01:55, undergra wrote: > hi i see the changes between FreeBSD 4.2 and FreeBSD 4.3 BETA. > > one question about .... > > "The "make buildkernel" procedure has changed slightly. It now gets > the name of the configuration(s) to build from the KERNCONF variable > (KERNEL is still valid, but deprecated). " > > why deprecated? > > what are the advantages of calling KERNEL o KERNCONF to that variable? > and it doesnt seem to make any difference, it still compiles GENERIC! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message