From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 5 14:51:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA19634 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:51:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA19624 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:50:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xe6aF-000193-00; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:50:55 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA12333; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:49:48 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199712052249.PAA12333@harmony.village.org> To: John-Mark Gurney Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? Cc: Francisco Reyes , Greg Lehey , "hackers@freebsd.org" In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Dec 1997 09:38:05 PST." <19971205093805.56784@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> References: <19971205093805.56784@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199712051453.GAA24838@super.zippo.com> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 15:49:47 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <19971205093805.56784@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> John-Mark Gurney writes: : why not simply use the && pipeline operator for this?? this is what : it is most commonly used for... Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing something that did an ls of /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, presented the user with choices (say a tk program) and then asked for a couple of options. Then you hit GO and the kernel would be rebuilt for them on the fly and optionally installed. Kind of a kernel compiler wizard. Is there any interest in this from the peanut gallary? Shouldn't be too hard to put together, modulo error checking :-). And if you really watned to get fancy, you could have a config wizard that you could use to create a custom kernel config file, but that is harder to write :-). Comments? Warner