Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:49:17 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, dan@langille.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building Message-ID: <20010118094917.A7976@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20010118024452.A7508@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>; from dmaddox@sc.rr.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:44:52AM -0500 References: <dan@langille.org> <20010118071534.031B13E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <20010118022343.A7286@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20010118094123.B6927@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <20010118024452.A7508@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>
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On Thu 2001-01-18 (02:44), Donald J . Maddox wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:41:23AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > Who exactly is advocating a full buildworld? The "new" style should not > > require a full buildworld. If it doesn't work, it's a bug. > > I was under the impression that 'make buildkernel' requires a fully- > populated /usr/obj. No, it doesn't. It may not work at the moment without it, but that's another story. It is, of course, suggested that you run 'make buildworld' beforehand when upgrading to a new version of FreeBSD. That applies equally to using the old method, come to think of it, but it involves a lot more work to get the old method to do the correct thing in this case. Basically, that's why the new method exists - to overcome any upgrading problems that the old method could not. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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