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From: "Oleg M. Golovanov" <oleg@tpo.krasnoyarsk.su>
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>       I recently upgraded my system from 2.1.6 to 2.1.7.1 (previously updated from 2.1.0 to 2.1.6).  In my customized kernel I have a line that states:
>options                "MAXMEM=(32*1024)"
>When I run the config on it it creates a line in the Makefile:
>IDENT=-DGAWAIN -DI586_CPU -DXSERVER -DATAPI -DMAXMEM=(32*1024) -DSYSVMSG -DSYSVSEM -DSYSVSHM -DVISUAL_USERCONFIG -DUSERCONFIG -DUCONSOLE -DCOMPAT_43 -DPROCFS -DFFS -DINET
>When I try to make the new kernel I get an error:
>Syntax error: "(" unexpected
>*** Error code 2
>
>Stop.
>
>The only way to make the error go away is to take the MAXMEM part out of the Makefile... but I need FreeBSD to recognize all my RAM.

Write "MAXMEM=32768" and everything will be OK !

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