Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:59:57 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <200101230959.f0N9xv400729@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200101230158.f0N1wHs15648@billy-club.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <200101230133.f0N1XB107675@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writ
es:
> : I've had KERNEL= in /etc/make.conf for several months and on lots of
> : machines. It leads to no trouble that I can see with buildkernel/
> : installkernel.
> :
> : Doing this may be broken for the old config, cd /blah/blah/compile/blah,
> : make method, so why not fix that rather than breaking everyone's
> : current configuration ?
>
> Yes. It is the case where you put it in /etc/make.conf and then build
> the kernel by hand that causes the grief.
I have backtracked a little more with a concession to POLA. If you do a
'make KERNEL=MYKERNEL buildkernel' it will DTRT still but will whine a
little with a pointer to KERNCONF=. Ie: existing installations will not be
broken and gentle encouragement will be applied to not propagate the
KERNEL= thing further.
I think we could MFC this without getting into trouble.
Cheers,
-Peter
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