From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 21 7:55:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599C137B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:55:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu (mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu [160.94.128.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC6843F43 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:55:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kwythers@umn.edu) Received: from [128.101.74.47] (x74-47.forestry.umn.edu [128.101.74.47]) by mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:55:10 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: upgrading from STABLE to 5.0 From: "Kirk R. Wythers" To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Brad Laue , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030120220827.GA2533@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <1043080805.29319.14.camel@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> <3E2C6B7C.6070205@brad-x.com> <20030120220827.GA2533@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1043164508.20400.4.camel@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 21 Jan 2003 09:55:08 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] x74-47.forestry.umn.edu #+LO+TR Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:08, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:34:52PM -0500, Brad Laue wrote: > > Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > > > > >1) I see a line in the UPDATING file that says: > > >make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > > > > A question arises based on this line. > > > > This is instructed to be run after 'make buildworld', but not after make > > installworld. Is there a drawback to building the kernel in this way, > > considering it will be built with GCC 2.95.4 and not 3.2.1? Is > > rebuilding the kernel again after installworld a recommended practice? > > Doing a 'make buildkernel' directly after a 'make buildworld' should > build the kernel using the compiler just built with the buildworld. > So there should be no need to rebuild the kernel again. So... if I look around at my kernel config file 'in my case LORAXKERNEL', I don't see any line about COMPAT_FREEBSD4, only the old COMPAT_43 line. Should I not be building from my old config file? -- Kirk R. Wythers email: kwythers@umn.edu University of Minnesota tel: 612.625.2261 Department of Forest Resources fax: 612.625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message