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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 1999 19:30:45 -0500
From:      Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
To:        <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal
Message-ID:  <99100219475100.45272@nomad.dataplex.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991002201511.EF75FBEF7@gw.nectar.com>
References:  <199910021645.JAA30398@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <19991002201511.EF75FBEF7@gw.nectar.com>

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> On 2 October 1999 at 9:45, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> We build world first, because we need an up-to-date toolchain and config
> to build the kernel.
> 
> Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org

Why isn't the kernel BUILT automatically as a part of "buildworld"?
Except for the fact that the object directory is in the wrong place, why isn't
a kernel just like any other module?

If I were to create /usr/src/kernels/i386/GENERIC
and move (or link) the configuration in that directory as a source
cp /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC /usr/src/kernels/i386/GENERIC/configuration

with a few minor changes, it would get build very much like (and at the same
time as) /usr/src/bin.

installworld could then install the kernel early in its sequence.


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