Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 04:58:20 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> To: 'Owl' <acerbicowl@home.com>, freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: RE: HELP PLEASE :) Message-ID: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0E4@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239014F53F8@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Owl > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:49 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org > Subject: HELP PLEASE :) > > > Okay, here's the scenario along with previous mail from helpers: > > > > For a few days I've been trying to rebuild my kernel, as I want to add > sound support for SB PCI128. I'm running FreeBSD 4.4 RELEASE. I copy > GENERIC, added device pcm, did config -r MYKERNEL, make depend, make, > and during make it stops with the following error: > > @ -> /usr/src/sys > ln: @/sys: File exists > *** Error code 1 > > I have no clue why it's doing this. help!! :) I'm no expert but the "ln" is the link command (man ln). A link is like a Windows shortcut in that it's a file that points to another file. I suspect that a link exists that the process is trying to create. Because it exists, the link can't be created and the build fails. So what you need to do is try to figure out what link it's trying to create and then delete it. Or to be safer, rename it to something temporarily so that you can put it back if needed. If you do a ls -l on a directory, you can identify links. Here's an example: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Sep 20 10:32 sys -> usr/src/sys The "l" in the first position indicates that this file is a link. This particular link points /sys to usr/src/sys as indicated on the right. Good Luck! Drew [...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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