From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 16 11:54: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A7937C29D; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA66851; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:53:58 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Warner Losh Cc: Doug Barton , Josef Karthauser , Ruslan Ermilov , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions In-Reply-To: <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > To build a kernel > ----------------- > Update config, genassym and go: > cd src/usr.bin/genassym > make depend all install > cd ../../usr.sbin/config > make depend all install > cd ../../sys/i386/conf > config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 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. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message