From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 15:10:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D95237B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:10:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D62A43E31 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6HMApPj019544 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:10:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h187n3fls20o913.telia.com [213.67.148.187]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA17179 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:10:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 28393 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Jul 2002 22:10:44 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:10:43 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: parv Cc: f-q Subject: Re: why/how new kernel build method succeeds after old method fails? Message-ID: <20020717221043.GA28377@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: parv , f-q References: <20020717220728.GA9568@moo.holy.cow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020717220728.GA9568@moo.holy.cow> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:07:28PM -0400, parv wrote: > now and then i see messages on -questions & -stable list stating > that "old" (config && cd && make) kernel building method fails while > the "new" (make buildkernel) method succeeds afterwords. > > i would have expected to new method to fail too. could anybody > explain the phenomenon? The "old" method uses the compiler/linker/etc. that you already have installed to build the kernel. The "new" method uses the tools just built by a previous buildworld, that are presumably more up to date. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message