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From: mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Stupid question about kernel name
Date: 30 Jul 1993 20:00:47 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland
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In article <23a51m$7vr@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes:
>Hi.  I'm building a new kernel that has some new options enabled.  I've
>already built a whole bunch.  I'm doing it from memory now.  (('ve got
...
>"config SNRE2SWAP"
>cd to /sys/compile/SNRE2SWAP
>"make newvers"
>"make depend"
>"make"
>boot the new kernel.  

I find that if you run config, you generally have to "make clean", then do
a complete build.  You would think "make depend" causes it to rebuild
everything, but you would be wrong.