broken instructions for buildkernel

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Tony Hain
<tony at hain-global-consulting.com>wrote:

> If buildworld is a prereq, why isn't that in the instruction sequence? Even
> if it is only required once, on a fresh install it should be possible to
> look at the FreeBSD docs and build a custom kernel without hitting errors
> and having to search for hints.
>

It isn't a prereq.  Those instructions have remained largely unchanged for
years for a reason. You were following instructions on how to build a new
kernel when in fact you were trying to upgrade FreeBSD.

Use these steps and you'll get a lot farther:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html

-- 
Adam Vande More