On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Mipam wrote:

> Normally i build the kernel source like /usr/src/sys/arch/{ARCH}/conf
> cp GENERIC bla
> config bla
> cd ../compile/bla
> make depend
> make
> cp /netbsd /netbsd.old && cp netbsd /

That still works for kernel.

As already mentioned, you should use build.sh for building from scratch.

On one of my systems, I can build (no kernel and no sets) in 80 minutes
and the update takes around 8 minutes.

The BUILDING documentation doesn't really explain about kernels though.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/