From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 12:26:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13632 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:26:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13625 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:26:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01833; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:25:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:25:45 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Jason Wells cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: when during kernel build do I run make depend? In-Reply-To: <3313134E.265F@u.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Jason Wells wrote: > Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > > Should I run make depend before make or after? _The Complete FreeBSD_ is > > silent on this, skipping the make depend step entirely. > > This is straight from the FreeBSD handbook section 5.2. > > # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL > # /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL > # cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL > # make depend > # make > # make install > > Is this the information for which you are looking? If I am correct, make Yes. Thanks, and thanks to who also answered the question. > depend is done on almost all software (that requires make depend) prior > to the performance of make. This is my limited experience. > > Have fun. > -- > __ __ > / 0\ / 0\ Thank you * Highperformance.net > ) Wannabe Sysadmin * The homeless domain > )-------( Jason Wells * "Pardon me sir, spare some bandwidth?" > \_____/ > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."