Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 02:43:26 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal Message-ID: <37F6443E.D1F5A19A@newsguy.com> References: <199910021645.JAA30398@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > These folks are 100% correct, some place some where we made a mistake > and are telling users to do things in the wrong order. It might have > even been myself that caused this, I just can't recall when and who > said to build the world before building the kernel. But now looking > at it in hindsight, this is plainly the wrong sequence, and we should > correct that error as soon as possible. > > When did we go wrong and start saying that users should build the world > before building a new kernel? If it was ``I'' that said it, I full > retract any such statement, I was WRONG!. It may have been said in the > patchkit days, or very early FreeBSD 1.x. It might have something to do with kernel's dependency on the tools installed by world, such as gas, gcc and config. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it done unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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