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Date:      Mon, 6 May 1996 23:32:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Brann <jbrann@panix.com>
To:        root@eer-ss201.internet1.net (Super-User)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org (freeq)
Subject:   Re: Kernel compile error
Message-ID:  <199605070332.XAA00910@jbrann.dialup.access.net>
In-Reply-To: <199605070021.UAA06299@eer-ss201.internet1.net> from Super-User at "May 6, 96 08:21:27 pm"

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Super-User wrote...
> ----------
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>    I'm trying to compile a FreeBSD 2.1.0-Release kernel on a 486SX33 with
> 8MB RAM (now 16MB) and a 200MB HD.  After copying the GENERIC to MYKERNEL
> and editing MYKERNEL (which I have attached as text), I type the following:
> 
> make config
> cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL
> make depend
> make all
> 
> About midway through the 'make all' I get the following error:
> 
> kern_sysctl.o: Undefined symbol '_hw_float' referenced from text segment
> ***Error code 1
> 

Yup.  This is the first time I've seen this one this week ;-)
Please don't take it personally, I did this, too.

Your config file contains the following:

#device         npx0    at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr

Uncomment this line, and your problem will vanish, allowing your kernel
build to run like a gentle wind.

npx0 is the floating point device, which is _not_ optional.  I thought this
had been fixed in the config file / FAQ / Handbook...

> I have compiled kernels before on other machines with no problems.  Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you
> Matthew Hagerty
> ----------

You're welcome,

John
-- 
Beavis and Butt-Head;  Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s.

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