From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 22:13:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.montanavision.net (hermes.montanavision.net [216.220.30.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA7537B403 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 22:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from leroy (hh1105002.direcpc.com [206.71.105.2]) by hermes.montanavision.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10635; Wed, 29 May 2002 23:12:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from rfreidel@3rivers.net) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 23:13:28 -0600 From: Ron Freidel To: Aaron Burke Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , Ron Freidel Subject: Re: Compiling troubles Message-ID: <20020529231328.G1496@leroy> References: <20020529204246.A20558@leroy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from aburke@nullplusone.com on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 22:33:33 -0600 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.4 Lines: 68 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At first I just wanted to build the kernel to add device pcm for my sound card, the kernel wouldn't build without errors, I followed the instructions to the letter too. I even tried to compile the unedited GENERIC kernel, that wouldn't build either. Then I thought if I cvsupd to 4.6RC that would probably fix whatever corruption was in /usr/src. Again though I couldn't buildworld. On 2002.05.29 22:33 Aaron Burke wrote: > I cant claim to be an expert about FreeBSD, but why are you trying to > build world? Are you getting new sources from CVS? Or can you explain > why you are using "make world"? > > You are just rebuilding the kernel right? I have never used make world > for this. I only rebuild world when I update the system. For future > reference, if you are only rebuilding a kernel use the following. > > cd /sys/i386/conf > cp GENERIC mykernel-name > Just for a test, dont edit the file. Just rebuild the GENERIC. > config mykernel-name > cd ../../compile/mykernel-name > make depend && make > If this is to be a kernel that you run on this machine, then run > make install > And when your ready to reboot, do so. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ron Freidel [mailto:rfreidel@3rivers.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 07:43 PM > > To: Aaron Burke > > Subject: Re: Compiling troubles > > > > > > Well, unfortunately I am not running FreeBSD currently, I did write > > down one error though > > > > This was during make buildworld on a clean install with just basic > > binaries and source installed. > > > > /usr/src/lib/libbz2/../../contrib/bzip2.decompress internal compiler > > > error in finish spills > > > > The error during kernel compile was completely different but > > unfortunately I havent got it witten down. > > > > Sorry but that was all I had written down and I have difficulty > reading > > my own handwriting... > > > > I just completed a kernel (Linux) compile as I was writing this > email, > > no errors at all. > > > > I installed FreeBSD four times today, thinking perhaps a different > > installation type would make a difference, nope. > > > > Thanks for the reply > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message