From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 23:53:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D7DA37B400; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:53:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 900E03E09; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from unixfreak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA0A3C10A; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:53:17 -0800 (PST) To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Dan Langille , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building In-Reply-To: Message from Neil Blakey-Milner of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:40:17 +0200." <20010118094017.A6927@rapier.smartspace.co.za> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:53:12 -0800 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20010118075317.900E03E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu 2001-01-18 (20:22), Dan Langille wrote: > > It might be because it doesn't work. The following box works with the > > "old" style, but fails with the "new" style: > > There'll probably be a 'nm' error somewhere above. I've asked people to > comment, including Marcel, and haven't got any replies. > > The "new" style should be the same as the "old" style. If it's broken, > fix the "new" style, don't suggest the "old" style. I'm in the same boat. I always thought that buildkernel would revert to using the installed binaries if there's nothing useful in /usr/obj. If the source tree you're building is the same as the running one, it shouldn't fail. Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message