On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > When you build a new world (make buildworld), none of the new tools > that have been built are installed. So any kernel built with this > system will attempt to use the existing tools. > > If something critical to building the kernel, say the .mk files or > compiler, have been updated and the kernel Makefile has been modified > to work with the new .mk files, any attempt to build the kernel with > existing, installed tools is doomed to failure.
This is exactly correct. Examples in the past have included binutils/compiler upgrades and *.mk changes. Kris
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