From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 9 17:25:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA27437 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:25:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA27418 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:24:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-40.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.40]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA21362 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 19:24:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA26461 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 19:24:12 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199712100124.TAA26461@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? In-reply-to: Message from j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:51:25 +0100." <199712092351.AAA04778@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 19:24:11 -0600 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. ;-) Whats wrong with "make depend kernel install"? That's what I've been doing. It appears to make those targets in order specified and aborts once one fails. As for the config step, it could be worse, it could be Linux. :-) Actually its been so long since I built a Linux kernel that I forgot how it was done. Hasn't been long enough for me to forget that one *had* to build a custom Linux kernel in order to get a functional mix of the right device drivers for your system. Hopefully (for Linux) that has changed by now. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.