Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:26:58 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 ) Message-ID: <XFMail.010121232658.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101220311150.644-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On 22-Jan-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> The Hermit Hacker wrote: >> > >> > d'oh, did it backwards again ... buildkernel then buildworld ... let me go >> > back and rebuild kernel and see if that is all it was in my case ... >> >> Argh! I wish people would stop using buildkernel! :-( It calls config(8) >> in such a way that buries the warning messages where people dont see. >> config(8) is meant to be used interactively :-( > > well, according to /usr/src/UPDATING, that is the documented way to do > things, or at least two out of 4 of them: What happened is that binutils was upgraded from 2.9 to 2.10 in both -current and -stable, and the old and new binutils weren't compatible. So, you had to installworld before building your kernel (which is what I did, and always do in fact). However, this made some people uncomfortable, so a 'buildkernel' target was made to work around this one problem. Then, in order to really beat it into -stable users heads to use it for the one needed upgrade, it was declared the end-all be-all method of upgrading a kernel when updating world. Except that it really isn't. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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