From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 21:56:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5308C37BF24 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doc@wcug.wwu.edu) Received: (qmail 4380 invoked by uid 1074); 28 Jul 2000 04:56:26 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:56:26 -0700 (PDT) From: David Daugherty X-Sender: doc@sloth To: "J. Goodleaf" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make depend fails on Kernel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, J. Goodleaf wrote: > I don't know if it will help, but you might have better luck using the > 'make buildkernel KERNEL=[your kernel]' 'make installkernel' method, which > I believe is now the officially preferred method for kernel builds, > especially with upgraded systems. This is detailed in /src/UPDATING. I > don't know if it's yet filtered into the handbook, but I would definitely > take a look at UPDATING. (It's not so bad. Initially, I was greatly peeved > that my 'config' 'make' thing had been deprecated, but I don't think the > newer method is at all a pain. There are just a few more steps to it.) I looked on the bsd list archive and found I needed to go to /usr/src then make buildkernel KERNEL=MACHINENAME I then get: make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop This is not an upgrade. I just installed the src and hour and a half ago. Thanks. David Software Engineer - NetManage Work email: david.daugherty@netmanage.com Home email: doc@wcug.wwu.edu ICQ 21106703 Washington State Resident To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message