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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:51:34 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu>
Cc:        "J. Goodleaf" <goodleaf@goodleaf.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make depend fails on Kernel
Message-ID:  <39812D76.7E9C091A@urx.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000727215343.3750A-100000@sloth>

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David Daugherty wrote:
> 
> 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.

Did you copy GENERIC into MACHINENAME? It won't work until you do.

Kent

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> David
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