From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 5 17:56:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7645437B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56D843FDD for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:56:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8754942DEF; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:56:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:56:32 -0800 From: Wes Peters To: Erik Paulsen =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sk=E5lerud?= Cc: gunnar.flygt@sr.se, ponomarew@oberon.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error making new kernel Message-Id: <20030205175632.6389474a.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <000b01c2cd13$0590bec0$0a00000a@yes.no> References: <20030205085720.GB20599@sr.se> <000b01c2cd13$0590bec0$0a00000a@yes.no> Organization: Softweyr.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:35:06 +0100 Erik Paulsen Skålerud alleged: > This is a pretty frequent question that I see alot of on the lists and > in different FreeBSD-channels on IRC. Then it should *obviously* be in a FAQ, shouldn't it? > Perhaps someone should implent some kind of kernel-config checker that > sees over the config and tells the user if something important is > missing (like scsbus and da if you're going to use umass). > I am sure that there are several other things it could check aswell. We already have such a tool, it's called 'make'. The compiler has provided a meaningful message. I'm astonished at how upset some people get at compiler "error" messages, I see them hundreds of times every day. Rather than give people another crutch to keep them from learning the system (aka the Linux X11 configuration tool) we should invest our time in teaching people to read the compiler messages and make learned corrections. This lesson is so old it's found in ancient apocryphal documents. You know, the 'teach a man to fish vs. give a man a fish' lesson? ;^) > I'd love to make one myself, the only problem is that I don't know > enough about shell-scripting to do this. Phew! Now you don't have to. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message