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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:19:20AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> I've been meaning to ask this for a while... why does everyone recomend:
> 
>     make buildworld
>     make buildkernel
>     make installkernel
>     make installworld
> vs.
>     make buildworld
>     make kernel
>     make installworld

I can think of two reasons:  First, the separate steps make it possible
to do make reinstallkernel when one does not want to overwrite kernel.old.
Second, and this I'm not sure of, it's my recollection that using -jn on
installs is either risky or sure trouble.  Is make smart enough to
ignore -jn on install, or is the makefile smart enough to avoid trouble?

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