svn commit: r40117 - in head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook: kernelbuild policies tools

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:

> On 21 November 2012 13:14, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at mit.edu> wrote:
>> This seems to remove the last documentation of manually invoking config(8)
>> to build a kernel, which seems worthy of explicit mention, and perhaps
>> broader discussion.
>
> This should probably be documented in config(1) or some other "how the
(config(8))
> build process works" document.  So far as I could tell, the old method
> should be considered an implementation detail, not an alternative.

The old method does not require building a toolchain or buildenv, if I 
remember correctly.

> That said I agree this probably deserves some broader consideration,
> so perhaps doc@ is the best place to discuss? Or would a developer
> focussed ML like hackers@ be better?

I think hackers would be better.

-Ben