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To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress Pro/10+ 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>> 4) cd /sys/compile/'YOURCONFIG'; make depend; make; make install
>
>Is make depend necessary?  Not knowing about it, for a long time I didn't 
>do it, and nothing broke.  (I know that that proves nothing -- that's why 
>I'm asking.  :)

   Not necessary, but highly encouraged.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project