kern/76225: WITHOUT_MODULES option for sys/modules/Makefile

[Ceri Davies]

The following reply was made to PR kern/76225; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
To: David Yeske <dyeske at yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/76225: WITHOUT_MODULES option for sys/modules/Makefile
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:57:47 +0000

 On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:46:05PM +0000, David Yeske wrote:
 
 >       WITHOUT_MODULES is a list that can be set in /etc/make.conf or
 > per build so that the directorys in that list will be removed from the
 > list of directorys to build.  This vastly speeds up kernel compile time
 > by allowing the user to specify to not build certain modules.  It is
 > also useful to cherry pick a certain module and not build it similar to
 > the NO_PF and NO_IPFILTER options.  The NO_PF and NO_IPFILTER options
 > could in theory be removed and set via WITHOUT_MODULES= pf ipfilter
 
 NO_PF and NO_IPFILTER are not quite the same, as they also prevent the
 userland components (pfctl, ipf, etc.) from being built.
 
 Ceri