From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 21 11:59:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1998837B729 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:59:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailg.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA06084 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:59:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h35n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.35]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28167 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:59:21 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 1897 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Mar 2001 19:59:24 -0000 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:59:24 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: STABLE Subject: Re: proper way to make kernel... Message-ID: <20010321205923.A1882@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: STABLE References: <3AB90248.90163161@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AB90248.90163161@mediaone.net>; from ericmlogan@mediaone.net on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:34:32AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:34:32AM -0800, Eric M Logan wrote: > Hi everyone. Is it normal to have "make kernel KERNCONF=something" > produce a smaller kernel than "config something, cd > ../../compile/something, make depend, make, make install"? And if so, > why is the former not the preferred way to compile a personalized > kernel? Thanks. > I think both ways should create identical kernelfiles. (Except when the second, older, method doesn't work.) And besides, the former (using KERNCONF) *is* the preferred way to compile a kernel. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message