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Subject: Re: RELENG_6 Kernel doesn't build due to DEVFS
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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problem of outdated compilers automagicly for you...

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