On 18 Jan 2001, at 20:13, Warner Losh wrote:
> Still, I don't think it is too onerous a requirement that a buildworld
> have happened first.
I disagree. Unless you qualify the above, you're saying that if I install
FreeBSD for the first time, in order to create a custom kernel, I need to
make world. Sorry, but that's breaking a long standing tradition of not
needing to make world before building a customer kernel. And
expecting someone new to FreeBSD to master build world before
getting them used to building a kernel is a bit too much of an ask.
> The other reason to encourage it strongly is that there are too many
> binary incompatibilities with the kernel interface for some programs,
> even in -stable, so we'd want to encourage people to build and install
> both at the same time. I'd imagine that the same sort of argument
> would apply for picobsd since you don't want that to be cross
> threaded. :-). But maybe I'm being overly paranoid here. Maybe I've
> answered one too many questions that boil down to "just rebuild the
> world and stop arguing with me, things will start to work".
Either we change the handbook to make it clear, as I hope my patch[1]
does, or we fix buildkernel so it works as advertised in the handbook. I
don't mind either solution.
[1] <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24148>
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