On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Matt Herzog wrote:

> Why is it recommended to build the toolchain before building a new kernel?
> I just built a RC3 kernel and it seems to be working fine. Should I bother
> running ./build.sh -t   ?

From an earlier 1.6_RC? The toolchain hasn't changed much (or at all)
in the release cycle, so that's not surprising.

It used to be necessary to make sure you could build a kernel with any
older toolchain. How else could you upgrade? But now, with "tools", it
isn't, so no one bothers checking if it can, so building a kernel with
an old toolchain may or may not work.

Frederick