From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 0: 0:41 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 96ED737B551 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doc@wcug.wwu.edu) Received: (qmail 5836 invoked by uid 1074); 28 Jul 2000 07:00:38 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:00:38 -0700 (PDT) From: David Daugherty X-Sender: doc@sloth To: Kent Stewart Cc: "J. Goodleaf" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make depend fails on Kernel In-Reply-To: <39812D76.7E9C091A@urx.com> 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, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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. Yup. This is what I've done: Installed 4.0-R from iso cvsup'd /stand/sysinstall Configure->Distributions->src->sys cp GENERIC MACHINENAME removed lines at beginning of MACHINENAME { cpu I386 cpu I486 cpu I686 ident GENERIC is now MACHINENAME } /usr/sbin/config MACHINENAME cd ../../compile/MACHINENAME make depend and I get: make: don't know how to make ../../../include/stddef.h. Stop Which is where I get stuck ;7) 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