Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:44:51 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks.. Message-ID: <XFMail.010623224451.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010623225526.A564@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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On 23-Jun-01 Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:23:35PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > make buildkernel is rather easy way to work it around: in >> > any case object tree is machine-dependent, and one yet >> > another directory does not destroy anything. ;| >> >> The "make buildkernel" approach sucks for incremental >> builds, since you are unable to avoid the "config" run >> each time, and a lot of unnecessary stuff gets compiled >> again because of opt_*.h files whose contents have not >> changed (even if you defeat the clean of the compile >> directory). > > About the release process, you are right, it is a bit harder > to restart without some tweaks, but the buildkernel target > is about as restartable as it can be. (I really don't think > anyone would ever advocate skipping the config(8) or > the 'make depend' stage..) Actually, make depend takes a relatively long time, and when I'm hacking on a kernel, I don't want to wait 15 minutes to build a kernel after changing one file. I compile kernels w/o config or make depend a lot. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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