On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 07:30:52 -0200 (EDT) 
 Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <pappires@vortex.del.ufrj.br> wrote:

 > Is there any special order in which I must build -current source tree?

....it can be tricky, sometimes, but...

 > I tried to upgrade my machine at home by building a new kernel first
 > but all I got were panics at boot-time because of no recognition of
 > my 1.2 /sbin/init.  I then built a 1.2B init but got the same problem.

...make sure you have EXEC_AOUT and EXEC_SCRIPT in your kernel config
file, otherwise you won't be able to exec those kinds of binaries.

Also, if you're upgrading from 1.2, make sure you have COMPAT_12 in 
your kernel config file, as well.

Then, you should be able to boot a 1.2B kernel on 1.2 userland...

Then, execute a "make build" from /usr/src, and the world should
build ok...

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