Re: hints static wiring

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:24:50AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Well, yeah, I'd expect that. I'm still trying to figure out what
> *good* failing to compile unless there's an empty /boot/device.hints

The kernel does not fail to *BUILD*.  ``make install'' is what fails.  I
agree that the requirement is somewhat anonying.  But, it is better to
have this slight anonyance than for many to to install and boot a kernel
that would be broken.

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