Subject: Re: kernel rebuild mixup
To: Hal Murray <murray@pa.dec.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/20/1999 10:43:48
Hal Murray wrote:

> 
> I added a line like this
>   options         NMBCLUSTERS=1024
> to my CONFIG file, ran config, make depend, and make.
> 
> It didn't build a new param.o.
> 
> As far as I can tell from greping the sources, the only place 
> where NMBCLUSTERS gets used is the following line in param.c:
>   int     nmbclusters = NMBCLUSTERS;
> 
> Did I miss something in the new-kernel recipe that covers this case? 
> 
> What should I have done?

There's a move to put all things that can effect depenandancies onto
header files - this is called "defopt"ing.  Sounds like this should be
done for NMBCLUSTERS as well?

Any objections if I do this?

Until then, probably the best thing is a "make clean; make"...

Simon.