From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 30 13:41:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from exodus.ait.co.za (exodus.ait.co.za [66.8.26.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EAF2237B41E for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aragon [66.8.86.210] by exodus.ait.co.za (SMTPD32-4.06) id AFD14CD201C6; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:40:33 0200 Message-ID: <006b01c1f087$9344dee0$01000001@aragon> From: "Aragon Gouveia" To: References: <20020430161355.14FEB5D05@ptavv.es.net><1020186756.11357.76.camel@lohr.digitalglobe.com><002501c1f084$6e0cda90$01000001@aragon> <15566.65418.773606.563032@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Build sequence (was Re: mergemaster theory (was: Re:/etc/defaults/rc.conf theory) ) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:42:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Heya, > > Am I missing anything from not using the newer method? > > Yes. What you're doing will use the old world to compile the new > kernel, even if you've done a "make buildworld". This doesn't always > work. Doing "make kernel" - which does buildkernel then installkernel > - will use the binaries in /usr/obj to avoid that problem. Ah that's cool. In the past I actually used to do installworld before compiling the kernel to avoid the problem *gulp*. This is much better :). > The downside is that the /usr/src make targets always do the complete > rebuild. If you're working on kernel source, you want to use the > "old" method to build the kernel, because you can probably skip the > first three steps, and always the first two, after you've changed the > source. Will keep this in mind. Will help if I need to add a kernel option and recompile quickly after upgrading :). Thanks Kent and Mike. Regards, Aragon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message