In <199612271432.JAA00422@jfwhome.funhouse.com> "John F. Woods" <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com> writes:

>Before I plunge into finally building and installing -current, are the -current
>libraries compatible with a 1.2 kernel, or vice versa?  Or is this a case of
>back the system up and hope it all works the first time?  (Scary because I need
>a custom kernel.)

Dependant on the platform you're talking about, you might need to rebuild
the kvm-library and all tools using it (ps, vmstat etc). The other things
should 'just work'.

Leo.