From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 22 09:39:04 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA13610 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 09:39:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA13605 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 09:39:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.2/8.6.9) id MAA07076; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 12:38:25 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199612221738.MAA07076@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Kernel rebuild quits at param.c:82 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 12:38:25 -0500 (EST) Cc: A.H.A.M.Boer@kub.nl, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199612221056.LAA13258@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 22, 96 11:56:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As Arnout Boer wrote: > > > param.c:82 `TIMEZONE' undeclared here (not in a function) > > param.c:82 initializer element for `tz.tz_minutes_west' is not constant > > param.c:82 `DST' undeclared here (not in a function) > > param.c:82 initializer element for `tz.tz_dsttime' is not constant > > *** Error code 1 > > Your config and kernel source seem to be in heavy disagreement. The > last traces of the timezone stuff have been removed from the kernel > ages ago. Make sure to build your kernel from consistent sources, > rebuild and reinstall config(8) first, and re-run it on you config > file. > Once, long ago, a group of us had a disagreement that the config sources should be part of the kernel tree (which I champion.) Maybe this should be revisited -- since the config program *does* have to have intimate knowedge of and actually *does* produce kernel code (like genassym.) Mess-ups associated with bogus versions of config have a possibility of being controlled then. John