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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:40:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: conf/23419: 'make buildkernel' doesn't work in isolation from 'make buildworld'
Message-ID:  <200012112040.eBBKe8T74791@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR conf/23419; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: joe@tao.org.uk, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/23419: 'make buildkernel' doesn't work in isolation from 'make buildworld'
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:33:49 +0000

 On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:57:41AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
 > Because it is not supposed to.  The whole purpose of buildkernel was
 > that it should use the same (up-to-date) set of tools that is used
 > for the rest of the world.  The correct and established sequence is
 > ``buildworld'' followed by ``buildkernel''.
 
 Shouldn't it then build the tools that it needs if they've not already
 been built?  Who's to say that last world built was of the same
 generation as the kernel that's being built?
 
 Here's the problem.  I want to build kernels for picobsd in a different
 object directory, so as to not conflict with any other kernel builds.
 
 Joe
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