From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 2 16:48:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA20785 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:48:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from mars.wexpress.com (drow@mars.wexpress.com [205.216.244.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA20766 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:48:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drow@chwest.org) Received: from localhost (drow@localhost) by mars.wexpress.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA23654; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 19:46:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 19:46:47 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Jacobowitz X-Sender: drow@mars.wexpress.com To: Derrick Baumer cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw between kernel versions In-Reply-To: <199712022144.NAA00472@bduk.dukpad.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You aren't missing anything, but none of those are really an issue. You do occasionally need to update 'config', but unless a serious bug crops up in make or gcc there is no need to upgrade them. The kernel itself builds independently of all libraries and all standard header files; pretty much all source it needs is in /usr/src/sys. On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Derrick Baumer wrote: > >On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Alex Nash wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: > >> > >I will - just want the kernel functional first. > > > >> > (I'm going to make installworld after I get the kernel in, but based on > >> > past experience I want to do those two seperately.) > etc... > > Been following this for a little while and I'm curious about one thing: > When you remake the world, you're remaking everything, including the > compiler and libraries and everything, right? So if you build the kernel > with your current system, you're not getting the benefits of whatever > (possible) changes have been made to the make program, the compiler, > the libraries, etc... Wouldn't it be better to make world first and > THEN make the kernel with the new stuff? > > Or am I missing something? > > Derrick Baumer > bduk@wave.net