From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 10 21:36:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F13E37BA77 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 21:36:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkeysler@nwlink.com) Received: from fargo.caldonia.net (ip4.usr7.usw.du.nwlink.com [209.20.138.4]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA15636; Wed, 10 May 2000 21:36:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:41:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Keeler X-Sender: kkeysler@localhost To: Eric Ogren Cc: stable Subject: Re: new kernel build procedure In-Reply-To: <20000509153740.A3172@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 May 2000, Eric Ogren wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:52:50PM -0700, Ken Keeler wrote: > > I was playing around with a couple of my new 4.0 stable machines tonight > > and discovered if /usr/obj is deleted the new make buildkernel > > installkernel process fails. > > This is intended. The point of "make [build|install]kernel is to build a > kernel using executables present in /usr/obj. This makes sense. Had I bothered to _think_ about it I might have arrived at this conclusion. :) > The correct method for rebuilding a kernel is still: > > # cd /sys/i386/conf && config KERNELNAME && cd ../../compile/KERNELNAME > && make depend && make && make install > > Eric Well alrighty then. Thankyou. E=mc^2 student 1 each Ken Keeler Phi Theta Kappa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message