From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 26 20:46: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5410D37B81F for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:45:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000727034558.IJYB23923.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu>; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:45:58 -0700 Message-ID: <397FB075.D996B5F3@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:45:57 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wolfgang Zenker Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > > But isn't the whole point of the buildkernel method to build the kernel > using the new tools you just created in /usr/obj? If i got this right > i think you actually WANT a buildkernel without an existing /usr/obj > to fail, hopefully with a message to please make buildworld first. > If depends if you are using FreeBSD stable or FreeBSD release. If you are using FreeBSD stable, of course you are correct. If you are using FreeBSD release, you will be using buildkernel only if you are customizing a new kernel. So there would be no need to rebuild the binaries. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message