FreeBSD 12.0 RELEASE i386 can not build a kernel?

[Ed Maste]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 03:50, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>
> Now the begging question, why isnt the toolchain as shipped
> already properly built?

The required toolchain is included in 12.0-RELEASE i386 - the linker
is /usr/bin/ld.lld. It just needs to be specified explicitly if build
via a method other than make buildworld or kernel-toolchain followed
by buildkernel.

I wanted to ship 12.0 i386 with lld as /usr/bin/ld, but held off on re
and portmgr's advice due to ports fallout.