Subject: Re: newcommer to building current...help please.
To: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: current-users
Date: 01/30/2002 09:14:21
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Antti Kantee wrote:

> On Wed Jan 30 2002 at 09:30:39 +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> >
> > The USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN=yes or USETOOLS=yes should NOT be there.
> > The appropriate value is pulled from bsd.own.mk.
> >
> Why should USETOOLS=whatever not be there? Let's say I have a clean
> install for which I only download the kernel source and wish to build
> it. Is there a better way of doing it than setting USETOOLS=no in
> /etc/mk.conf?

kernels builds don't use the new toolchain by default. Setting
USETOOLS=yes in /etc/mk.conf would cause it to, but if you need to do
that, you may as well use "nbconfig" and "nbmake-<arch>" from the
tools/bin directory, and then you can just set it on the command line.

Frederick