From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 12 14:47:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.nildram.co.uk (marvin.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B515737B402 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:47:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27190 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 22:47:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO VicNBob) (213.208.123.26) by marvin.nildram.co.uk with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 22:47:00 -0000 From: Matthew Whelan To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), Michael Lucas , "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:47:00 -0000 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20020312135845.0369fc20@207.227.119.2> Message-Id: <94LKWSXTSPD0LI73HF86RP3VNKJ3W09.3c8e8564@VicNBob> Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.0 build 1010 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 12/03/2002 20:07:00, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" wrote: >>I replace the second two steps with "make kernel". >> >>I'd be glad to know any disadvantage of that not shared by the two-step. > >Besides the fact that your modules are stale (make.conf change required to >avoid that) or that you are on your own when doing "unsupported" >procedures. The biggest problem is passing on such things to those that >don't know better, which is a disadvantage to those that later point out >the problem with deviating from accepted procedures. I cut further corners and "make update buildworld kernel" and forget about it for a few hours. Not yet returned to discover that it's been wasting hours sitting there informing me of an error. I can't help noticing the following in /usr/src/Makefile.inc1: # # kernel # # Short hand for `make buildkernel installkernel' # kernel: buildkernel installkernel So I'd say this is pretty safe really. Unless I *still* don't understand make, that is =] Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message