From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 10:31:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25792 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:31:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25782; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA00942; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:31:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19971031103101.24679@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:31:01 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Michael Alwan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current kernel won't build References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Michael Alwan on Fri, Oct 31, 1997 at 11:20:45AM -0500 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Alwan scribbled this message on Oct 31: This is a reminder to the people on the other lists... If you want to run -current, you NEED to be subscribe to freebsd-current... This is where all the problems are discussed... > Another mystery that causes a non-critical error is the tag in /i386/conf > Makefile.i386 for a certain version of config: > > ># Which version of config(8) is required. > >%VERSREQ= 300002 > > The command "/usr/sbin/config GENERIC" gives this warning (but creates the > kernel build directory): this means you need to rebuild config, this was suppose to prevent people from making the same mistake you did... [...] > I'll try new kernel sources later. Should I be discussing this on another > mailing list, or should I just keep trying until I get something that works? > Should I try to make world first? you need to read -current... I'm almost postitive that Joerg posted a warning about this to -current in reply to his commit message warning people that rebuilding config is neccessary... also.. reciently Mike Smith was nice enough to post his "Keeping -current w/ FreeBSD" document too.... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD