On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:41:26PM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > Thus spake Garance A Drosihn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06/12/03 03:31]: > > From the above description, it sounds like you are running > > on a 5.1 system, and you are trying to compile a 5.2 kernel. > > Is this true? > > > > If the system you are on is 5.1, then you are going to have > > to do a 'make buildworld' of the 5.2-source before you can > > do a 'make buildkernel' of a 5.2 kernel. > > It's not clear from what you're saying, but will this cause problems with > the statfs stuff? I've been under the impression that a 5.1->5.2 upgrade > requires me to build and boot a new kernel before I can install a new world > -- it's not clear if you're saying I need to build /and install/ a new world > before building a kernel, or if I just need to build world...
Just build, as all the documentation (UPDATING, handbook, ...) says. buildworld builds a copy of any updated tools that are needed to bootstrap the rest of the upgrade process, for example a new make. Kris
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