From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 18:46:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eurus.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E836537B40A for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 18:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialin-135-32.hamilton.primus.ca ([209.90.135.32]) by eurus.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 17ALCu-0003KH-0A; Tue, 21 May 2002 21:46:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:46:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt X-X-Sender: leth@lethargic.dyndns.org To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: VB Subject: Re: patch fbsd question In-Reply-To: <20020520230443.A99647@sunny.localdomain> Message-ID: <20020521213905.R55939-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 May 2002, VB wrote: > HI, > > It has been reported that this is the procedure to follow when updating and > patching: > [ ... snip ... ] > > But after one does make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC, the screen says to > not forget to make depend. But this algorhythm includes no such step. > Which is correct, to do "make depend" or not to do it, and why? > "make buildkernel" is really all of the steps from the "classic" way of compiling a kernel, but in one atomic operation. These steps are: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # /usr/sbin/config KERNCONF # cd ../../compile/KERNCONF # make depend # make By running "make buildworld" you are essentially performing all of those commands. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message