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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!aix11.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: compiling 2.2-current Date: 29 Jun 1996 16:54:38 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4r3n4e$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4p7dcj$afk@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu> <4pfle0$3to@keltia.freenix.fr> <4q339i$5kc@news.clinet.fi> <4qghqt$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4r0lvj$7k3@news.clinet.fi> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) wrote: > >> major changes, i always first compile a kernel, then i make > world, and then >boot at all. (Otherwise, the `make world' will be > wasted time.) > yeah... what if i dont make the kernel first, but the world? If you're undergoing a large step, the new binaries might fail when run against an old kernel. Actually, this will usually only happen for a very small set of heavily system-dependant binaries (ps, w, lkm's). > >> also how often one should make world on current? > >Some people never do. Some of us actually prefer to understand what > > ah, ok, what then? See below. > >machines, this is annoying, so a make -k and manual error recovery > >might be better. > > yes, i prefer that myself i guess... > i was actually considering making that a cron job, would it be fatal? I know of people who do this, but of course, you will run into all sorts of breakage that might temporarily happen. You're a fine beta tester then. :) -- 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. ;-)