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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:53:12 -0800
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: too much confusion over kernel building 
Message-ID:  <20010118075317.900E03E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>  of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:40:17 %2B0200." <20010118094017.A6927@rapier.smartspace.co.za> 

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> On Thu 2001-01-18 (20:22), Dan Langille wrote:
> > It might be because it doesn't work.  The following box works with the 
> > "old" style, but fails with the "new" style:
> 
> There'll probably be a 'nm' error somewhere above.  I've asked people to
> comment, including Marcel, and haven't got any replies.
> 
> The "new" style should be the same as the "old" style.  If it's broken,
> fix the "new" style, don't suggest the "old" style.

I'm in the same boat.  I always thought that buildkernel would revert
to using the installed binaries if there's nothing useful in /usr/obj.
If the source tree you're building is the same as the running one, it
shouldn't fail.

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org



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