Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:10:09 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a kernel with config ? Message-ID: <451918A1.2080203@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <E1GSA6P-0004fB-EZ@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E1GSA6P-0004fB-EZ@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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Pete French wrote: >>On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:34:42 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote: >> >>2. Building a kernel with config is not officially supported. It's at >> your risk and may not work in all cases. Build a kernel with: >> cd /usr/src >> make buildkernel > > > I was not aware that you wern't supposed to use config anymore - and I > am not convinced that the suggested alternative is actually a replacement > as I thought that buildkernel required you to have built the world first ? > Is this no longer true ? If it *is* true thhen what is the alternative to > using 'config' which should be used if you are on a system where you do > not have the time or the disc space to rebuild the world and simply want > to recompile the kernel ? AFAIK you can use make buildkernel && make installkernel without recompiling whole world if you have system built from same sources. Miroslav Lachman
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