From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 4 14:15:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9ECB14D7D for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 55684 invoked from network); 4 Aug 1999 21:15:05 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 4 Aug 1999 21:15:05 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:15:05 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a new kernel In-Reply-To: <199908042011.OAA04923@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message > David > Scheidt writes: > : I upgraded a -STABLE system to -CURRENT using source a month or two > : ago. The first step is to build the new toolchain, so you shouldn't > : ever be compiling a new kernel with an old compiler. > > In the past, we've given advise to build a new kernel, then reboot and > do a make upgrade or make world (depending on if you were branch > jumping or not). Also, as part of the aout-to-elf target, a kernel is > built... Read the docs? Who me? It sounds like the 3.X to 4.0-RELEASE documentation should say not to do this. Unless, of course, gcc-2.95 is imported before t hen. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message