make buildkernel does not respect KERNCONF or JOBS in /etc/make.conf

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

Scott Bennett skrev:
> 
>      On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:34:58 +0000 tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> I have found that make buildkernel/installkernel does not respect 
>> KERNCONF= variables. It also doesn't respect MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER. It *DOES* 
>> however respect WITH_CCACHE_BUILD. It's hard to say when the behaviour 
>> changed to what it is, but it was sometime around the time that 
>> 11-CURRENT became 11-STABLE.
>> 
>> Sources are 11-STABLE r309795
>> 
>> Here is my /etc/make.conf, which used to work:
>> 
>> MALLOC_PRODUCTION=yes
>> WITH_CCACHE_BUILD=yes
>> MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=32
>> KERNCONF=PUMPKIN GENERIC
>> WITH_MANCOMPRESS=YES
>> WITHOUT_DEBUG=YES
>> DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=  ssl=libressl
>> OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=YES
>> BUILD_OPTIMIZED=YES
>> 
>> I used to be able to buildworld and kernel like this:
>> 
>> root at localhost:/usr/src# make cleandir && make clean && make buildworld 
>> && make buildkernel && make installkernel && mergemaster -p
>> 
>> and I'd get two installed kernels, PUMPKIN and GENERIC
>> 
>> now I have to specify on the line:
>> 
>> root at localhost:/usr/src# make cleandir && make clean && make -j32 
>> buildworld && make -j32 buildkernel KERNCONF=PUMPKIN
>> 
>> Also, I have to specify jobs # for both buildworld and buildkernel 
>> otherwise it just uses one, two or four cores.
>> 
>> How can I get it to work like it did previously?
>> 
>      You may have misremembered how you did it previously.  Try adding
> 
> BUILDKERNELS=PUMPKIN GENERIC
> 
> to your /etc/src.conf and removing the KERNCONF line from /etc/make.conf
> before you run it again.  KERNCONF goes on the "make buildkernel" command,
> not into /etc/make.conf, but should not be necessary at all if /etc/src.conf
> contains the list of kernels to be built.  (See src.conf(5).)

- BUILDKERNELS is used in Makefile.inc1 but not listed in neither
  src.conf(5) nor make.conf(5)
- KERNCONF is listed in make.conf(5)
- I use KERNCONF in /etc/make.conf to build two kernels and it works

So why are you giving this advice?

--
Herbert