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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions 
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:19:09 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003161151590.63685-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> Kris Kennaway writes:
: I still think we should be recommending people use 'make buildkernel' to
: build GENERIC and minimize the possibility of foot-shooting from a stupid
: config file which then gets blamed on 4.0 itself. Besides, I tried to
: rebuild my kernel from 3.4 using 'config' et al, but it didn't compile
: because the PATH was wrong and it was using the 3.x compiler/linker.

I agree with this.  I think that creating /GENERIC isn't a big deal
and I kinda like it.  It is certainly less confusing than some of the
alternatives.

Warner


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