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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:31:40 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem building modules for release.
Message-ID:  <20000615093140.L18462@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000615090242.A32679@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:02:42AM -0700
References:  <20000615090242.A32679@dragon.nuxi.com>

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* David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> [000615 09:03] wrote:
> As some may know, modules are not winding up in the `bin' distribution in
> release builds right now.  The problem is one may decided they don't want
> to build modules when they build their kernel, but they cannot decide to
> do the traditional way of building modules with the world.
> I am putting back that ability.  
> 
> Now that we've had a taste of both ways, I have two questions of people:
> 
> 1.  Should the symbol be MODULES_WITH_KERNEL or MODULES_WITH_WORLD, (or
>     something else)?
> 
> 2.  Which should be the default?  Building modules with world or kernel.

I haven't see an "oops my modules and kernel are out of sync" mail since
the change.  The extra time it takes to build is a bit annoying but very
worth the protection it allows.

I'd stick with building the modules along with the kernel.

-Alfred


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