From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 21 23:18:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB22337B699; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:18:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp150.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.150]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0M7Mjs79431; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:22:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:18:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: John Baldwin Subject: Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 ) Cc: Peter Wemm , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, "Donald J . Maddox" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Jan-01 John Baldwin wrote: > > On 22-Jan-01 Donald J . Maddox wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:49:30PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: >>> >>> Argh! I wish people would stop using buildkernel! :-( It calls config(8) >>> in such a way that buries the warning messages where people dont see. >>> config(8) is meant to be used interactively :-( >> >> Is there another target that will get a kernel built with new tools >> in /usr/obj rather than old, previously installed binaries? > > Rarely if ever do you need the new tools. The only cases are for a binutils > upgrade that is not backwards compatible (such as the 2.9 -> 2.10 upgrade), > or > if you need a newer version of config, which can be handled by installing > config and then building your kernel. The config(8) changes won't happen in > stable, and I don't foresee anymore drastic buildkernel changes in the > future. That last 'buildkernel' should be 'toolchain'. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message