From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 9 16:27:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA22535 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:27:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA22510 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:27:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA01899 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 01:27:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id AAA04778; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:51:25 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:51:25 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712092351.AAA04778@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <199712051453.GAA24838@super.zippo.com> <19971205093805.56784@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John-Mark Gurney wrote: > why not simply use the && pipeline operator for this?? this is what > it is most commonly used for... We are Unix, you could even simply typeahead the next input, trusting that all the steps before would have worked. ;-) Recompiling an entire kernel also takes quite a few minutes on my machine, that's why i've nuked the entire code to remove the old compile directory out of /usr/src/usr.sbin/config/. j@uriah 463% config -n SOMETHING Warning: option -n is obsolete. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)