From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 15: 0:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6443E37BE98 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:59:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e67LxPn14907; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007072159.e67LxPn14907@ptavv.es.net> To: Lint^^ Cc: "Chad R. Larson" , Warner Losh , kstewart@3-cities.com, cjm2@earthling.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make: don't know how to make dwarf1.c. Stop In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:04:34 EDT." Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 14:59:25 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:04:34 -0400 (EDT) > From: Lint^^ > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > the old standard method is working fine for me... i would also like to > know if one method is `better' than the other, as i have no problem > sticking with the old method... As I understand things, the idea is that the "old" method of explicitly issuing a config command and then doing makes in the compile directory should work fine EXCEPT after a buildworld. The reason is that that method builds the kernel using the currently installed files, not the new objects just built. The kernel, even if it builds, is going to be out of sync with the system as soon as you "make installworld". OTOH, "make buildkernel KERNEL=name" and "make installkernel KERNEL=name" in /usr/src will build the kernel from the newly built, but not yet installed objects and the sources in the source tree. This means that you are booting the new kernel "single user" to install the new system and everything stays in sync. 1. Does that make sense? 2. Is it correct? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message