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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:47:12 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        kstewart@urx.com
Cc:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, "Mars G.Miro" <mars@cannoncreek.com>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: buildkernel errors 
Message-ID:  <200102110547.f1B5lCW19494@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:42:41 PST." <3A7F0231.37A1FCC8@urx.com> 
References:  <3A7F0231.37A1FCC8@urx.com>  <20010205083525.EA8013E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <01020516431701.10140@hellraiser.cannoncreek.com> <008501c08f95$33bd0aa0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> 

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In message <3A7F0231.37A1FCC8@urx.com> Kent Stewart writes:
: If you had done this last night while ng_base.c was broken, you would
: have ended up with an installed 4 Feb user land and a bad kernel. The
: buildkernel and installkernel was intended to bootstrap across things
: like compilers being upgraded or new binutils. It also puts off the
: installs until everything will build.

Actually, buildkernel is supposed to be a "always safe" target.  It
has the nice side effect of always working accross compiler/binutil
upgrades.

Warner


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