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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Building a 4.3BSD kernel under 4.2
Message-ID: <8087@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 01:03:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.8087
Posted: Sat Aug 22 01:03:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 08:21:29 EDT
References: <8943@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <8943@brl-adm.ARPA> hoey@nrl-aic.arpa (Dan Hoey) writes:
>... The hardest part was figuring out that I needed the 4.3 version of
>/usr/ucb/symorder.  Why is some random ucb binary needed to make the
>kernel?  RTFM.  But why did they change it for 4.3? ...

It was broken in 4.3alpha, and may have been broken in 4.2BSD.  I
forget the details (even though I found the bug) but it occurred
very rarely.  Perhaps the generic kernel got lucky.

You can boot a kernel without symordering it, but some utilities
will run slower.
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