From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 1 11:42:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8517037B71A for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:42:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rapier.smartspace.co.za) Received: (qmail 21050 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Mar 2001 19:41:54 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:41:54 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Andrew Hesford , FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL? Message-ID: <20010301214154.A20857@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <20010301124330.A27288@cec.wustl.edu> <200103011858.f21IwAL31574@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103011858.f21IwAL31574@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:58:10AM -0800 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2001-03-01 (10:58), Kevin Oberman wrote: > The old kernel build method: > cd /sys/i386/conf && config KERNEL > cd ../../compile/KERNEL && make depend install > should be used only when you > have made a change to your config file and want to build a new kernel, > especially if the /usr/obj tree is not populated. (Since buildkernel > uses the file in /usr/obj, it will only work if /usr/obj is populated. This is no longer the case - make buildkernel works without a populated obj tree now. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message