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On Sat, 24 May 2008, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2008, Robert Watson wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 May 2008, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>>> On Fri, 23 May 2008, KAYVEN  RIESE wrote:
>>> 
>>> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
>>> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
>>> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
>>> kv_bsd#make kernel
>> 
>>> From the 7.0 errata notes:
>> 
>> [20080307] Source upgrades from FreeBSD 6.X to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE will 
>> generate warnings from kldxref(8) during the installkernel step. These 
>> warnings are harmless and can be ignored.
>
> Thank you very much for showing me I should have RTFM in a very nice way.

No problem :-).  This is arguably a bug, and you're not the first person to 
ask about it, hence its being in the errata.  I'd like to see this fixed for 
7.1 so people sliding forwards from 6.x to 7.1 don't have the same obvious 
question.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge