From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 2 10:48:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36A714FBF for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p01-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.98]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id CAA21798; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 02:45:03 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37F6443E.D1F5A19A@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 02:43:26 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal References: <199910021645.JAA30398@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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