> On 2 October 1999 at 9:45, "Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> We build world first, because we need an up-to-date toolchain and config
> to build the kernel.
>
> Jacques Vidrine / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why isn't the kernel BUILT automatically as a part of "buildworld"?
Except for the fact that the object directory is in the wrong place, why isn't
a kernel just like any other module?
If I were to create /usr/src/kernels/i386/GENERIC
and move (or link) the configuration in that directory as a source
cp /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC /usr/src/kernels/i386/GENERIC/configuration
with a few minor changes, it would get build very much like (and at the same
time as) /usr/src/bin.
installworld could then install the kernel early in its sequence.
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