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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:33:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r40117 - in head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook: kernelbuild policies tools
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.1.10.1211212031500.2164@multics.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmjGS3ahcrVsgzPqo%2B-ep9PyOmPn6oZBEH0AWJYDChzCw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201211211357.qALDvDsP064264@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1211211255140.2164@multics.mit.edu> <CAF6rxgmjGS3ahcrVsgzPqo%2B-ep9PyOmPn6oZBEH0AWJYDChzCw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:

> On 21 November 2012 13:14, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
>> This seems to remove the last documentation of manually invoking config(8)
>> to build a kernel, which seems worthy of explicit mention, and perhaps
>> broader discussion.
>
> This should probably be documented in config(1) or some other "how the
(config(8))
> build process works" document.  So far as I could tell, the old method
> should be considered an implementation detail, not an alternative.

The old method does not require building a toolchain or buildenv, if I 
remember correctly.

> That said I agree this probably deserves some broader consideration,
> so perhaps doc@ is the best place to discuss? Or would a developer
> focussed ML like hackers@ be better?

I think hackers would be better.

-Ben



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