From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 2:11:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1FC37B403 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:11:08 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: Annelise Anderson Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:11:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Kernelbuild "the new way" (Was: APM not even a sign) Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020624013725669.AAA723@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020624091108201.AAA725@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23 Jun 2002, at 22:22, Annelise Anderson boldly uttered: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > > > So what's the downside of using the "new way" to rebuild a kernel on > > an existing system who hasn't had its source upgraded since the last > > build? > > > > That's been what I've always done - relatively new FreeBSD user that > > I am (since 4.1). Any reason not to do it that way? > > > There is no down side; on a system in which the sources for the base > system have been built and installed (i.e., installworld has been done) > they are equivalent. The kernel will end up (before it's installed) in > the /usr/obj hierarchy, however, just in case you want to build one and > not install it (e.g., building a kernel.GENERIC). > > Annelise OK, thanks for the clarification. I never did learn how to use the "config " command. Somewhere around 4.0 to 4.2 I think is when they introduced the "buildworld/buildkernel" targets. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message