From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 15 9:31:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD7037BA74; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:31:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e5FGVeU28594; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:31:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:31:40 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "David O'Brien" Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem building modules for release. Message-ID: <20000615093140.L18462@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000615090242.A32679@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000615090242.A32679@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:02:42AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David O'Brien [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message