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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


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