From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 18 22:46: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6313C37B698 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:45:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05468; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:45:39 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <200101190645.TAA05468@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary / FreshPorts To: Dima Dorfman Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:45:39 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Patch to fix "make buildkernel requires full obj directory" mistake Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: Message from Warner Losh of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:13:57 MST." <200101190313.f0J3Dvs50534@harmony.village.org> In-reply-to: <20010119033331.BA6C93E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Jan 2001, at 19:33, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Personally, I think that if there's no technical reason why > buildkernel can't work without a prior buildworld assuming that the > kernel you're building is of the same version that's currently > running, trying to explain two different methods to new users should > be avoided. This is good. New users have enough to learn without getting confused about kernel build methods. I would prefer one method which would work in all cases, but failing that, let's patch the handbook[1]. [1] Some may interpret this as an attempt to goad a fix. It is. ;) -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message