From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 24 21:41:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA29115 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 21:34:47 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA29101 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 21:34:36 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA07890; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 16:29:26 +1100 Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 16:29:26 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199511250529.QAA07890@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, scrappy@hub.org Subject: Re: follow-up to kernel compile problem... Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, davidg@Root.COM Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >Just thought of a question with this list of "things to do"... >Shouldn't you install the new libraries before compiling the >kernel itself? And what about the new include files? No, the kernel doesn't depend on the new libraries and gets the new include files from their uninstalled places in the source tree (except for some bugs in libkern). Sometimes you have to be careful installing utilities to match the new kernel. There may be no correct order. I always try new kernels before new utilities because it's much easier to back out one kernel than hundreds of utilities and the utilities that break usually aren't necessary for starting up. Add /usr/src/share/mk to the top of my list. Bruce