Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> writes:
> this is the way i've usually done things (since it was easier and
> required less reboots), but i thought it was the other way around.  i
> thought one was supposed to build a new kernel first so as to support
> any new features that libraries or binaries might like to make use of.

You do always want to build and install a new kernel first, but if you
want a "make release" to work, as the person at the start of this
thread did, you have to "make build" beforehand.

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