From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 9 20:49:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE0837C3D5 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA35726 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:49:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Subject basically says it all. "make buildkernel KERNEL=" and "make installkernel KERNEL=" (or set KERNEL in /etc/make.conf or the environment, where KERNEL is the name of the kernel to build (GENERIC, etc)) are what you should always be using to build your kernels, unless you know what you're doing. This will automagically use the correct build tools for the job, and will solve problems like the one a lot of people are seeing since the binutils upgrade. Summary of Officially Sanctioned Update Procedure: make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel shutdown (drop into single-user mode) make installworld mergemaster reboot Depart from the above procedure at your own risk. Thankyou :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message