From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 21 23:27:24 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 54CE537B404 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:27:07 -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 f0M7VUs79449; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:31:30 -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 23:26:58 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: The Hermit Hacker Subject: Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 ) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Jan-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> The Hermit Hacker wrote: >> > >> > d'oh, did it backwards again ... buildkernel then buildworld ... let me go >> > back and rebuild kernel and see if that is all it was in my case ... >> >> 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 :-( > > well, according to /usr/src/UPDATING, that is the documented way to do > things, or at least two out of 4 of them: What happened is that binutils was upgraded from 2.9 to 2.10 in both -current and -stable, and the old and new binutils weren't compatible. So, you had to installworld before building your kernel (which is what I did, and always do in fact). However, this made some people uncomfortable, so a 'buildkernel' target was made to work around this one problem. Then, in order to really beat it into -stable users heads to use it for the one needed upgrade, it was declared the end-all be-all method of upgrading a kernel when updating world. Except that it really isn't. -- 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