Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:26:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic during boot Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.92.960415132457.10311J-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199604150332.UAA04584@Root.COM>
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On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, David Greenman wrote: > >> Wait, what's wrong with -n?? Except for the other day, I always > >> use -gn when I reconfig the sources before compiling, so that I don't lose > >> my version #. > > > >It would have been nice if you mentioned this back when you were talking > >about other problems you were having. > > > >-n is _evil_. If any changes have been made to your kernel sources that > >you are not _intimately_ familiar with, (ie. you have resupped), then > >you _must_must_must_ not use -n. Dependencies aren't enough to protect > >you from losing like this. I suspect this _may_ be part of your problem. > > Indeed. Even the dependencies themselves don't always work as expected so > some things don't get rebuilt when they need to be. The whole reason why > Jordan made the change to config to blow away the compile directory was > because we kept getting weird bug reports that later turned out to be caused > by a stale .o's. > As I sent back to Jordan...*groan* I only wanted to keep my version numbers straight :( actually, when I think back on it, it wasn't until I started asking about the version numbers that someone mentioned the -n switch...can we get rid of it altogether? :) Recompiling my kernel now and I'll see if that fixes the problem :( Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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