buildkernel error

[mmatsuda at cybernet.co.jp]

From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper at FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:04:24 -0800
::On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:54 PM,  <mmatsuda at cybernet.co.jp> wrote:
::> From: Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org>
::> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:39:31 +0100
::> ::On 2011-02-22 08:30, gnehzuil wrote:
::> ::> I updated my kernel source code and try to make a new kernel using make
::> ::> buildkernel command. But I got an error as follow:
::> ::...
::> ::> ld:/usr/src/sys/conf/ldscript.i386:66: syntax error
::> ::
::> ::Your /usr/bin/ld is still at version 2.15, which is too old to parse the
::> ::kernel linker script.  In this case, first run "make buildworld", or at
::> ::least "make kernel-toolchain" before you attempt to build any kernels.
::>
::> Hello,
::>
::> Does it mean we have no-way of source upgrading from 8.X?
::> We need newest world to build 9.x kernel, and need 9.x kernel to run
::> newest world, and...
::
::    No; you have to do something like the following:
::
::[kernel-]toolchain buildworld buildkernel.
::
::    A plus side of doing this is that I do kernel-toolchain at -j12
::and then do buildworld buildkernel at -j12 as well. It's much quicker
::than buildworld buildkernel at -j1, and less error prone than doing it
::at any other -j value in parallel.
::    The handbook just says buildworld buildkernel (
::http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html ), and UPDATING
::just says kernel-toolchain buildkernel installkernel (look for "To
::build a kernel"), but there aren't any official directions in the
::quick to find spots that mention those above steps.

Ahh, thanks for pointers.
I was just reading the "To upgrade in-place from 8.x-stable to current"
from UPDATING, which does not say anything about [kernel-]toolchain.
May by that part, and some others, also needs updating.

Thanks,
  Haro