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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Config Questions
Date: 19 Feb 1995 05:37:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3i59mn$j9b@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
DABLOODGOD <dabloodgod@aol.com> wrote:
>I just installed version 2.0 from the Walnut Creek CDROM - When I run
>config to start rebuilding the Kernel - It proceeds to erase ALL of the
>object files from the destination directory. The previous version depended
>on MAKE to figure out the dependencies and only recompiled the files that

That's because the previous version didn't REALLY work.  It found MOST
of the dependencies, but not all, and it was still easy to confuse it and
get a bogus kernel made.  I finally got sick of the bug reports from people
who really just had bad kernels and I made config much more aggressive.
If somebody wants to really go track down all the dependencies and make sure
that they're being generated properly, I'll consider taking this back out
again!

				Jordan