Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:37:41PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
>>I remember switching to shell scripts to do all of this when O'Brien
>>updated the /binutils during the transition from 4.0 > 4.1. The
>>consequence of mistyping a script name was immediately apparent where
>>as, mistyping an option would be found at the end of a bad make session.
>>
>>The sequence of buildworld, build[install]kernel, installworld wasn't
>>an option when the /binutils were updated. I kind of wonder if the
>>same thing is going to happen when the /binutils are updated in ~2
>>months as was commented else where.
>>
>
> Hang on, I thought that was the exact reason for the introduction of
> buildkernel/installkernel and the point in time when it was
> introduced.
Ah! Bad phrasing on my part. "Wasn't an option" meant it was the only
choice. There was a race to be the first one to use the new /binutils
the night he made the changes and I was the first one bitten by the
old way of doing things. I haven't found any reason to switch since :).
Kent
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