From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 18:39:17 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 59CF237B40D for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 18:39:11 -0700 (PDT) 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 SAA25155; Mon, 20 May 2002 18:39:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE9A53B.8070308@owt.com> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 18:39:07 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jimbo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel won't compile References: <001f01c20062$bc5cf980$3264a8c0@jimbosath2000> 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 Jimbo wrote: > Can anybody give me some input on why I can't compile a kernel? > > I'm using 4.5-RELEASE, and I keep getting error 127 from mkdep when I try to > make depend for the kernel: > > =================================== > ../../i386/i386/genassym.c > mkdep:not found > *** Error 127 > > Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM. > =================================== > > I thought that I'd probably hosed something in my custom kernel > configuration, but when I tried building the GENERIC config, I got the same > error. If I try doing a make with the -j4 option, I get a similar error 127 > from mkdep, but in a different location. > > I found an email in the archives that discussed updating genassym.c and > config, and I tried doing that - first CVSUPping the SRC collection, and > then going to genassym and trying to make it - but when I did THAT, I got > more error 127's from mkdep. I was always under the impression that -jx only worked on buildworlds. I also only found that -j4 improved things when you had more than 1 cpu. My fastest wall clock times are with no -j parameter. Kent > > This copy of BSD was installed from a CD-ROM as 4.5-RELEASE. > > Can anybody shed any light on my problems? > > -J > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA 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