Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:47:34 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 ) Message-ID: <XFMail.010122154734.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200101222325.f0MNPA913286@harmony.village.org>
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On 22-Jan-01 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <XFMail.010122133417.jhb@FreeBSD.org> John Baldwin writes: >: >: Erm, if it wasn't documented in the first place, making a change doesn't >: put the burden of documenting the old behavior on the person making the >: change. > > It was in the handbook, explicitly documented. Nothing undocumented > about it. If I were to change how ls worked in some way, I'd be > exepcted to update the man page for ls. This is no different than > that. This is the documented way to build kernels, see > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html > for the current instructions. They have been in there since at least > 1.29 (alex 15-Jul-00): &prompt.root; <userinput>make... > 1.29 (alex 15-Jul-00): &prompt.root; <userinput>make... > when alex added them. That's at least 6 months ago. They have been > in UPDATING longer than that. Nm. I was referring to the original request: >: >: Could you also make sure it makes it into /etc/defaults/make.conf >: >: (KERNEL isn't mentioned there at all) and make.conf(5)? Which basically says: "this wasn't documented before, can you document it now?" But anyways, this isn't really worth the effort. My laptop still isn't booting, so I'll get back to that.... -- 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-current" in the body of the message
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