From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 22 7:12:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fredholm.it.uu.se (fredholm.it.uu.se [130.238.15.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94E9937B71E for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:12:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@csd.uu.se) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by fredholm.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17587 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:12:44 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:12:43 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: proper way to make kernel... Message-ID: <20010322161242.A17495@student.uu.se> References: <20010321205923.A1882@student.uu.se> <200103221449.PAA86223@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103221449.PAA86223@lurza.secnetix.de>; from olli@secnetix.de on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:49:44PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > And besides, the former (using KERNCONF) *is* the preferred way to > > compile a kernel. > > Why? > > I think it's only preferred (and even required) when you do > a make world. If you just changed something in your kernel > config file and then build a new one (maybe without even > having /usr/src except for sys), then the standard way to do > it is the usual "config, make depend, make, make install". > > Regards > Oliver > In the particular case you describe when you just change the kernel config file and the sources you are building from are the same as were originally used to compile the world then "config, make depend, make, make install" will work just fine. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message