Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 03:42:06 -0700 (PDT) From: dan@freebsddiary.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/20191: you don't ALWAYS have to make world before building a kernel Message-ID: <20000726104206.529F137B5F6@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 20191 >Category: docs >Synopsis: you don't ALWAYS have to make world before building a kernel >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 26 03:50:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Dan Langille >Release: >Organization: The FreeBSD Diary >Environment: >Description: The handbook implies that when building a custom kernel, you need to do a build world first. That's not correct. From http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html (near bottom of page): For FreeBSD 4.x or later (or upgrading from FreeBSD 3.x to FreeBSD 4.x or higher), use the following commands (be sure you have built world before!): While correct, if you know what you are doing, we've had people asking about how to build world, when all they need is a new kernel. Someone please verify my claims in the patch for correctness. Cheers. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- chapter.sgml.original Sat Jul 22 17:50:25 2000 +++ chapter.sgml Sat Jul 22 18:09:47 2000 @@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ &prompt.root; <userinput>make install</userinput></screen> <para>For FreeBSD 4.x or later (or upgrading from FreeBSD 3.x to - FreeBSD 4.x or higher), use the following commands (be sure you + FreeBSD 4.x or higher), use the following commands (and if you are + upgrading FreeBSD, e.g. 3 to 4 or -release to -stable, be sure you have built world before you build the kernel!):</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/src</userinput> >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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