"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
> 
> These folks are 100% correct, some place some where we made a mistake
> and are telling users to do things in the wrong order.  It might have
> even been myself that caused this, I just can't recall when and who
> said to build the world before building the kernel.  But now looking
> at it in hindsight, this is plainly the wrong sequence, and we should
> correct that error as soon as possible.
> 
> When did we go wrong and start saying that users should build the world
> before building a new kernel?    If it was ``I'' that said it, I full
> retract any such statement, I was WRONG!.  It may have been said in the
> patchkit days, or very early FreeBSD 1.x.

It might have something to do with kernel's dependency on the tools
installed by world, such as gas, gcc and config.

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Daniel C. Sobral                        (8-DCS)
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