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Date:      Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:39:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Cc:        wdk@frc.niwa.cri.nz, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't boot new kernel
Message-ID:  <199607301339.PAA00284@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607301128.LAA01866@jraynard.demon.co.uk> from James Raynard at "Jul 30, 96 11:28:06 am"

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> > 
> > You could try building a generic kernel, or grab a recent SNAP 
> > kernel to bootstrap from, then you should be back in business.
> 
> Nope, I couldn't get a generic kernel to work either.  I ended up
> re-installing 2.1.0 (ab)using the 'upgrade' option.  Now I'm trying 
> to upgrade back to -current, but I get
> 
> cc -O2 -m486 -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/i386   -c lib.c
> In file included from lib.c:21:
> /usr/include/ctype.h:121: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
> /usr/include/ctype.h:122: parse error before `___tolower'
> /usr/include/ctype.h:122: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
> /usr/include/ctype.h:122: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> /usr/include/ctype.h:123: parse error before `___toupper'
> [...]
> 
> The problem is that <ctype.h> references a type (_BSD_CT_RUNE_T_) that
> is not defined anywhere in my source tree.  In desperation, I tried 
> #defining it to _BSD_RUNE_T_, but cc doesn't seem able to pick up the
> definition from <runetypes.h>, for some reason.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> 

I had this problem recently with my 2.2-current tree. Somehow I had a wrong
ctype.h (and/or ansi.h). I deleted my /usr/src tree and resupped everything.
I'm healed now :-)



--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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