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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-10-31 19:37:53 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-10-31 19:37:53 +0000
commit2ef449bfd18d76ac94a49613b007f4c15999afd4 (patch)
tree998be0789c9413213061386593731709caef8201 /share/man/man8
parent2afda1f4479f6c36b8f45446d14ee76c1ed30a7c (diff)
clean up the COMPILING A KERNEL section:
in particular, show `make depend' as the norm. started by a diff from mpech@; ok otto@ millert@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man8')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/afterboot.812
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/afterboot.8 b/share/man/man8/afterboot.8
index 64ac5dfc5fa..0f6da82e1bc 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/afterboot.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/afterboot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: afterboot.8,v 1.110 2005/07/14 21:12:17 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: afterboot.8,v 1.111 2005/10/31 19:37:52 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Marshall M. Midden
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -796,6 +796,7 @@ To compile a kernel inside a writable source tree, do the following:
# vi SOMEFILE (to make any changes)
# config SOMEFILE
# cd ../compile/SOMEFILE
+# make depend
# make
.Ed
.Pp
@@ -805,9 +806,6 @@ is the architecture (e.g. i386), and
.Ar SOMEFILE
should be a name indicative of a particular configuration
(often that of the hostname).
-You can also do a
-.Ic make depend
-so that you will have dependencies there the next time you do a compile.
.Pp
If you are building your kernel again, before you do a
.Ic make
@@ -818,14 +816,14 @@ or a
.Ic make clean
after making changes to your kernel options.
.Pp
-After either of these two methods, you can place the new kernel (called
+The new kernel (called
.Pa bsd )
-in
+can be placed in
.Pa /
(i.e.\&
.Pa /bsd )
and the system will boot it next time.
-Most people save their backup kernels as
+Many people save their backup kernels as
.Pa /bsd.1 ,
.Pa /bsd.2 ,
etc.