On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:16 AM, tech-lists <tech-li...@zyxst.net> wrote:
> On 12/12/2016 09:07, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> My question is, do you build modules redundantly, or just once? >> I don't want to build the same modules more than once. >> > > For me - redundantly, I guess. It's not like it takes a lot of time or > space on the compiling machine, and I ensure that everything that needs to > be built, is built. > > PUMPKIN = heavily modified config with all the stuff I don't need stripped > out, and a couple of non-default lines. > > GENERIC = unmodified kernel that should work if by some chance PUMPKIN > doesn't. > -- > J. Clearly the documentation is a bit behind the times. For some time people have used KERNCONF to build multiple kernels, but that was a lucky things that was not officially supported. It just happened to work. Then, with 11.0, it no longer did in many cases sue to changes in the kernel build system. When people complained, there did not seem to be a way to fix this without blocking future goals in speeding up and enhancinghte standard kernel build. The result was BUILDKERNELS. It was specifically designed to allow the building of multiple kernels and the appropriate modules. This would always take longer and use more disk space, but it would work reliably. Now, bit building a single, local kernel, KERNCONF is the best way, though I suspect that it make only a small difference until new capabilities are added later in the life of 11. So, while it seems the man pages need to catch up, building multiple kernels should be done with KERNCONF in either make.conf or src.conf and multiple kernels with BUILDKERNELS. This is from my recollection of the discussion thread. I'll admit to being too lazy to go find and read all of it. I suspect it was on current@, but I'm not even sure of that. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
