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Date:      Sun, 8 Oct 1995 14:36:30 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        jehamby@lightside.com, jfieber@indiana.edu
Subject:   Re: Kernelconfig.sgml FINALLY FINISHED!
Message-ID:  <199510081336.OAA00534@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951008130416.2618C-100000@knobel.gun.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Oct 8, 95 01:52:07 pm

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As Andreas Klemm wrote:
> 
> 	I would add a note, like "don't name your kernel DEBUG,
> 	since that would cause debugging statements to be compiled
> 	into the kernel, which is only useful for kernel developers."

``Often, config file names resemble the name of the machine the kernel
is intended for, for example, a config file for the machine
freefall.freebsd.org would be called FREEFALL.''

> 		# make depend			<<== what about this ?!
> 		# make
> 		# make install
> 
> 	I always thought, that a "make depend" is important here ?!

Since config(8) has just blown away the entire build directory (and
will blow away it again next time), make depend is simply a waste of
time.  (Btw., /usr/src/release/Makefile does also fail in this area:
it's wasting much time makeing depend for two kernels where the build
areas are being nuked 10 minutes later. :-)

People who know about config -n do also know about make depend. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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