Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:50:54 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net>, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RELENG_6 Kernel doesn't build due to DEVFS Message-ID: <20051107235054.GG775@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20051107142621.Q9690@fledge.watson.org> References: <433E9C4F.8040404@charter.net> <20051002124424.D71864@fledge.watson.org> <20051003115659.GJ43195@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20051107142621.Q9690@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote this message on Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 14:31 +0000:
> older compiler incorrectly rejecting it as invalid. Ideally, commits to
> update the compiler are made, and then after some longish delay (a few
> weeks), the source code is updated to make use of new compiler features.
> In this case, the changes came in close proximity, resulting in a few more
> stubbed toes.
Ideally, people would use the buildworld/buildkernel to build their
kernel, and if they really want the developer experience of building
a kernel, they can use buildworld/buildenv which will deal with the
problem of outdated compilers automagicly for you...
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