Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:37:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels Message-ID: <20000711103710.B21954@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <14697.55301.614418.390096@onceler.kcilink.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007092043510.33246-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <14697.55301.614418.390096@onceler.kcilink.com>
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On Monday, 10 July 2000 at 10:04:53 -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
>>>>>> "KK" == Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
> KK> Subject basically says it all. "make buildkernel KERNEL=<whatever>" and
> KK> "make installkernel KERNEL=<whatever>" (or set KERNEL in /etc/make.conf or
> KK> the environment, where KERNEL is the name of the kernel to build (GENERIC,
> KK> etc)) are what you should always be using to build your kernels, unless
> KK> you know what you're doing.
>
> So you're saying that even after upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 you should
> use make buildkernel? That seems counter to what has been discussed
> before, and is way non-BSD-ish.
Agreed. I tried it out and found a number of things I didn't like
about it. Basically, it's a completely different build process:
1. Before building, it removes the existing kernel build tree.
There's no good reason for this.
2. It builds in a different tree (/usr/obj instead of
/usr/src/sys/compile). These two points mean that if you later
want to go back and tune your kernel (change a driver parameter,
say), you can't just do a config; cd ../../compile/FOO; make, you
have to go the whole nine yards.
3. It gives the kernel a different name.
4. It's just plain clumsy.
Greg
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