From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 16 9: 7:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw-line-100.fwi.com [209.84.172.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0CA14F59 for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 09:07:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: from emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us [10.23.42.2]) by catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16388; Sun, 16 May 1999 11:06:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA96778; Sun, 16 May 1999 11:07:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) To: wayne@crb-web.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to build kernel after cvsup References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 16 May 1999 11:07:19 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: Wayne Cuddy's message of "Sun, 16 May 1999 10:47:03 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: <86yaipxako.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wayne Cuddy writes: > Ok I used the supfile from the handbook and decided to pull down the entire > source tree.(src-all) When I try to configure the GENERIC kernel 'config > GENERIC' I get this message > > >config: can't open ../conf/devices.i386 > > Why does this happen and how can a build a new kernel from the cvsupped > sources? Config gets out of date as things get moved around, and you don't really want a kernel that's inconsistant with the rest of you system anyway. You don't mention what version of FreeBSD you currently have installed or which set of sources (2.2-stable, 3-stable, 4-current) you're trying to build a kernel from. You almost certainly need to do a 'make world', to update your system binaries, and may need to do use one of the more specialized targets 'aout-to-elf' or 'upgrade'. Then build your new kernel. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message