Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:57:35 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com> Cc: Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> Subject: Re: I do not understand kernel modules Message-ID: <20050121154625.A2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050121134217.GA77496@gardnerbell.ca> References: <41EFA65E.80307@wanadoo.es> <20050120125840.M1382@wcborstel.nl> <41F044F4.9070706@wanadoo.es> <20050121134217.GA77496@gardnerbell.ca>
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On Jan 21 at 08:42, Gardner Bell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:55:32AM +0100 Ramiro Aceves wrote: >> Jorn Argelo wrote: >>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote >>> >> >> Yes, I understand now. The problem is that my old pentium machine takes >> very long time to compile all the modules even if I am not going to use >> them. I would like to compile only the modules I use, to reduce >> compiling time. Is that possible? >> > Refer to the option MODULES_OVERRIDE in man make.conf(5) if you wish > to only compile certain modules. Thanks for this! I'm approaching a critical "rite of passage" today conincidentally, by recompiling my kernel and getting rid of stuff I don't need. Doing what you suggest sounds eminently sensible, yet I have to ask a followup question... How do you specify a particular make.conf that should *only* be used for recompiling kernels? Regards & TIA, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Fri Jan 21 15:57:00 CET 2005 3:57PM up 1 day, 4:47, 5 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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