From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 22:37:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCCD37B404; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:37:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05439; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:36:56 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <200101190636.TAA05439@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary / FreshPorts To: David Kelly Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:36:55 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Dima Dorfman , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20010118135857.A11345@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200101180744.UAA14563@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>; from dan@langille.org on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:44:22PM +1300 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Jan 2001, at 13:58, David Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:44:22PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 18 Jan 2001, at 9:41, 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. > > > > The handbook does. Well, it doesn't, but the frequently interpretion is > > just that. And my patch aims to fix that common misinterpretation. > > Amongst other things. > > In all the bulk on this topic I missed the details as to whether > Dan's xeon may have an old buildworld, no buildworld, or up to date > buildworld laying around. My short answer is I don't know. But I suspect I've done a make clean since my last buildworld. I know I've done at least one build world because I'm on 4.2-stable. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message