From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 1 12:25:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00BB37B719 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net) Received: from dwcjr (216-118-21-147.pdq.net [216.118.21.147]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3A111131A; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:25:25 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <029501c0a28d$c0002fa0$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Neil Blakey-Milner" , "Kevin Oberman" Cc: "Andrew Hesford" , "FreeBSD-stable" References: <20010301124330.A27288@cec.wustl.edu> <200103011858.f21IwAL31574@ptavv.es.net> <20010301214154.A20857@rapier.smartspace.co.za> Subject: Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL? Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:25:26 -0600 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 X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had problems with buildkernel and installkernel not actually updating my kernel, was this a problem at one time or just a user error(ID10T virus) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Blakey-Milner" To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: "Andrew Hesford" ; "FreeBSD-stable" Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:41 PM Subject: Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL? > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message