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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:25:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: when during kernel build do I run make depend?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970225122522.1818B-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <3313134E.265F@u.washington.edu>

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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Jason Wells wrote:

> Snob Art Genre wrote:
> > 
> > Should I run make depend before make or after?  _The Complete FreeBSD_ is
> > silent on this, skipping the make depend step entirely.
> 
> This is straight from the FreeBSD handbook section 5.2.
> 
>     # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
>     # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL
>     # /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL
>     # cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL
>     # make depend
>     # make
>     # make install
> 
> Is this the information for which you are looking? If I am correct, make

Yes.

Thanks, and thanks to <josh@jlc.net> who also answered the question.

> depend is done on almost all software (that requires make depend) prior
> to the performance of make. This is my limited experience.
> 
> Have fun.
> -- 
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 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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