> > Before attempting to build world, you must make and install a new
> > kernel. The new kernel will contain new syscalls that are needed during
> > build world. doscmd is currently not being build because it needs fixing
> > first.
> 
>       Is there any way at all that we can change this process so that
> building the kernel first is not required?

No.

> Those of us involved in
> educating users about the make world process spend a lot of time telling
> them not to do this. It's amazing how long and how tenaciously "one-time"
> exceptions like this stick in their minds. 

The users are probably right in this case :-).  New kernels normally
don't break anything except utilities that grope in kmem.  New kernels
are about 1000 times easier to back out of than wrong worlds (just
boot a backup kernel).

Bruce



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