From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 18: 4:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A982437B422 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:04:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00220; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:04:04 -0700 Message-ID: <39BED284.FB1E8B67@urx.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:04:04 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Krauth Cc: vedette@iconnect.co.ke, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1: Can't compile kernel, even as GENERIC! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen Krauth wrote: > > Hey, I just happened to notice your reply in the freebsd-questions > archive, since you didn't cc me. I don't subscribe to the list. > > Anyway... > > > Why are you recompiling the kernel? Is it after a cvsup? I assume you were > > going -STABLE. If that is so then /usr/src/UPDATING says that you have to > > cd /usr/src > > make buildworld > > I was recompiling with a customed copy of the GENERIC file (named > something else), but when it failed I tried the original GENERIC for > comparison. It fails also, thus my message. > > And no, I haven't cvsup'ed at all - this is after an install of 4.1 from > the cd, or over ftp (can't remember which at the moment). Since then I've > only installed packages and ports... > > Anyway, I'm trying make buildworld at the moment just to see. It > shouldn't be necessary on a virgin system, but what else can I try? If you haven't done a cvsup, you probably should be doing a config and make depend. The build[install]kernel depends on code in /usr/obj that the buildworld creates. Kent > > Steve K. U.F.O. - "For the feeler gauge in you." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message