Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:47:12 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: kstewart@urx.com Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, "Mars G.Miro" <mars@cannoncreek.com>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildkernel errors Message-ID: <200102110547.f1B5lCW19494@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:42:41 PST." <3A7F0231.37A1FCC8@urx.com> References: <3A7F0231.37A1FCC8@urx.com> <20010205083525.EA8013E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <01020516431701.10140@hellraiser.cannoncreek.com> <008501c08f95$33bd0aa0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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In message <3A7F0231.37A1FCC8@urx.com> Kent Stewart writes: : If you had done this last night while ng_base.c was broken, you would : have ended up with an installed 4 Feb user land and a bad kernel. The : buildkernel and installkernel was intended to bootstrap across things : like compilers being upgraded or new binutils. It also puts off the : installs until everything will build. Actually, buildkernel is supposed to be a "always safe" target. It has the nice side effect of always working accross compiler/binutil upgrades. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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