From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 15: 8:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E43937B404 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:08:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA16029; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:08:43 -0800 Message-ID: <3C742C7B.6070707@owt.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:08:43 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oscar Ricardo Silva Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel build failure after cvsup to 4.5 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020220151343.02558ce8@mail.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > At 02:53 PM 2/20/2002 -0600, Oscar Ricardo Silva, you wrote: > >> I have a FreeBSD 4.2 machine and I'm trying to upgrade to 4.5-STABLE. >> I got the latest source using cvsup and I'm now trying to rebuild and >> reinstall. Following the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING: >> >> make buildworld >> make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC >> make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC >> >> (and I've tried a stripped down, edited version of GENERIC as well). >> I can do the "make buildworld" fine, no problems there. When I do >> "make buildkernel" I run into a problem with xargs in the 3dfx >> directory, the error complains that "-J" is not a valid option. I've >> tried getting the source yesterday and today but still the same error. >> >> Any thoughts? Any suggestions/pointers? Are you supplying a -J option from your make.conf. FWIW, on 7 different speed machines, a -j actually slows the buildworld down. It takes longer by the clock to finish. It was only on an SMP system that the -j did anything useful. Kent > > > Here's the actual output of the kernel build procedure: > > ===> streams > ===> vesa > ===> wi > ===> 3dfx > cc -nostdinc -O -pipe -D_KERNEL -Wall -Wredundant-decls > -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith > -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I- > -I. -I@ -I@/dev -I@/../include -fno-common -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 > -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual > -fformat-extensions -ansi -c > /usr/src/sys/modules/3dfx/../../dev/tdfx/tdfx_pci.c > ld -d -warn-common -r -d -o 3dfx.kld tdfx_pci.o > touch > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NIC/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/3dfx/export_syms > awk -f /usr/src/sys/modules/3dfx/../../conf/kmod_syms.awk 3dfx.kld > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NIC/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/3dfx/export_syms | > xargs -J% objcopy % 3dfx.kld > xargs: illegal option -- J > usage: xargs [-0] [-t] [-n number [-x]] [-s size] [utility [argument ...]] > *** Error code 1 > Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/3dfx. > *** Error code 1 > Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. > *** Error code 1 > Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NIC. > *** Error code 1 > Stop in /usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > Stop in /usr/src. > > > Oscar > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message