On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:45:30AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > Read my lips: *NEVER* do a 'make world' until you've got a new bootable
> > kernel. You can go back to a 'kernel.old' in 5 seconds. Undoing a 'make
> > world' because a new kernel doesn't workd is a major drama.
>
> 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.
Unless I'm mistaken, the FreeBSD Tutorial "Upgrading FreeBSD from source"
tells you to "make world" before you make and install the kernel. I take
it the tutorial is wrong? :)
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