Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 13:30:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Cc: doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com, jfieber@indiana.edu Subject: Re: Kernelconfig.sgml FINALLY FINISHED! Message-ID: <199510082030.NAA13802@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199510081336.OAA00534@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 8, 95 02:36:30 pm
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> > As Andreas Klemm wrote: > > > > I would add a note, like "don't name your kernel DEBUG, > > since that would cause debugging statements to be compiled > > into the kernel, which is only useful for kernel developers." > > ``Often, config file names resemble the name of the machine the kernel > is intended for, for example, a config file for the machine > freefall.freebsd.org would be called FREEFALL.'' > > > # make depend <<== what about this ?! > > # make > > # make install > > > > I always thought, that a "make depend" is important here ?! > > Since config(8) has just blown away the entire build directory (and > will blow away it again next time), make depend is simply a waste of > time. (Btw., /usr/src/release/Makefile does also fail in this area: > it's wasting much time makeing depend for two kernels where the build > areas are being nuked 10 minutes later. :-) THIS IS NOT TRUE I often make ne configuration, then build from it several dozen times as I edit various sources.. not having correct dependencies can be a real problem, and cause untold hours of wasted debugging.. > > People who know about config -n do also know about make depend. :-) > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >
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