From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 11 14:24:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E60437B404 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C45643E7B for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 99BE866B5E; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:24:38 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Jamie Heckford , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiling a New Kernel Message-ID: <20021011212438.GA62451@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <008601c27106$300ee460$3264a8c0@BONG> <20021011152433.6CE075D04@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021011152433.6CE075D04@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > When you build a new world (make buildworld), none of the new tools > that have been built are installed. So any kernel built with this > system will attempt to use the existing tools. >=20 > If something critical to building the kernel, say the .mk files or > compiler, have been updated and the kernel Makefile has been modified > to work with the new .mk files, any attempt to build the kernel with > existing, installed tools is doomed to failure. This is exactly correct. Examples in the past have included binutils/compiler upgrades and *.mk changes. Kris --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9p0GVWry0BWjoQKURAihFAJ9rHdVCqhochN7jCewAhPrXO4SjCwCdHxUz 8pCZoIcn0E5/N6DoDz1fs/k= =XVrY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message