From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 1 11:54:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25525 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:54:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053n18.san.rr.com (dt053n18.san.rr.com [204.210.34.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25519 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:54:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053n18.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01875; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:54:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <363CBC5D.58BC293@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 11:54:05 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-1101 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Mayhar CC: najib@csi-x.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem compiling -STABLE References: <199811011637.IAA03008@exit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frank Mayhar wrote: > You need to go into /usr/src/usr.sbin/config and do a 'make install'. Config > has changed recently, making it necessary to update it before trying to build > a kernel. > > I found out the hard way myself, but in general when something like this > happens, updating config first is usually a good thing to try. If that > fails, _then_ ask the list. It would be more correct to say that you should never update kernel sources without an accompanying make world. The fact that it sometimes works is purely accidental. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message