From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 9 12:40:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2142D37C21D for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 12:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eogren@rod.darktech.org) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip106.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.106]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12067; Tue, 9 May 2000 12:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e49Jbfq04148; Tue, 9 May 2000 15:37:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:37:40 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: Ken Keeler Cc: stable Subject: Re: new kernel build procedure Message-ID: <20000509153740.A3172@earthlink.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from kkeysler@nwlink.com on Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:52:50PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:52:50PM -0700, Ken Keeler wrote: > I was playing around with a couple of my new 4.0 stable machines tonight > and discovered if /usr/obj is deleted the new make buildkernel > installkernel process fails. This is intended. The point of "make [build|install]kernel is to build a kernel using executables present in /usr/obj. The correct method for rebuilding a kernel is still: # cd /sys/i386/conf && config KERNELNAME && cd ../../compile/KERNELNAME && make depend && make && make install Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message