FreeBSD 12.0 RELEASE i386 can not build a kernel?

[Ed Maste]

> > Let me guess.  You use 'make' in sys/i386/build/YOUR_KERNEL ?
> > Then you need to use 'LD=ld.ldd make'.  The proper way of
> > 'make buildkernel' from top-level src handles it automatically.
> >
> If you back up in the thread you would also see the output
> is the same for cd /usr/src; make buildkernel conf=CUSTOM

"make buildworld" or "make kernel-toolchain" needs to be run first.
Also, there's a typo in kib's command - it should be LD=ld.lld (two
'l's, not two 'd's).

There's more information about this issue (when it applied to amd64)
at https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2018-May/018967.html.