From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 11 2: 7:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9935E37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 02:07:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F26F43E4A for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 02:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9B97fKg013077; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:07:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9B97acH013071; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:07:36 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:07:36 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Jamie Heckford Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiling a New Kernel Message-ID: <20021011090736.GB2256@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Jamie Heckford , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <006801c27102$7a170f00$3264a8c0@BONG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006801c27102$7a170f00$3264a8c0@BONG> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-13.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:44:57AM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Being one of these difficult people who like sticking to the old way > of doing things, im still compiling my kernel the old way (config > KERNELNAME; cd ../../KERNELNAME; make depend; make ; make install) > :P > I picked up a rumour on the mailing lists that this may no longer > work in future/recent releases? Nowadays, the "old" way is only guarranteed to work if you've previously built and installed world, kernel with that same set of sources. The new way, 'make buildkernel' doesn't have that restriction, as it uses the compiler toolchain and so forth freshly created in the build area. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message