From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 16:56:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2B814D7B for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from d219.syd2.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA28533; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:56:54 +1000 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:55:53 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Doug Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Before attempting to build world, you must make and install a new > > kernel. The new kernel will contain new syscalls that are needed during > > build world. doscmd is currently not being build because it needs fixing > > first. > > Is there any way at all that we can change this process so that > building the kernel first is not required? No. > Those of us involved in > educating users about the make world process spend a lot of time telling > them not to do this. It's amazing how long and how tenaciously "one-time" > exceptions like this stick in their minds. The users are probably right in this case :-). New kernels normally don't break anything except utilities that grope in kmem. New kernels are about 1000 times easier to back out of than wrong worlds (just boot a backup kernel). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message