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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:33:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca>
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Subject: Re: Stable - compile error
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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Mike Jeays wrote:

> I grabbed the kernel source for -stable, and attempted to compile it on my
> 2.2.1 system.  I got the following compile error:
> 
> echo "___gnu_compiled_c" >>symbols.exclude
> grep -v '^#' ../../i386/i386/symbols.raw  | sed 's/^    //' | sort -u >
> symbols.sort
> cc -c -x assembler-with-cpp -DLOCORE -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../..
> -I/usr/include -DAPM_BROKEN_STATCLOCK -DAHC_FORCE_PIO -DFAILSAFE
> -DCOMPAT_43 -DMSDOSFS -DFFS -DINET -DKERNEL ../../i386/i386/locore.s
> ../../i386/i386/locore.s: Assembler messages:
> ../../i386/i386/locore.s:101: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.p2align'
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> 
> Is it feasible to run a kernel that is more up to date than the rest of
> the system, or must I do a complete upgrade? (I sort of have the feeling
> that this is a very naive question....)

See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/stable.html.

You probably need to rm -rf /usr/src/sys/ and refetch/checkout your kernel
source.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major