From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 20:46:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.sc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE27A37B400 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 20:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jimbosath2000 ([66.26.120.141]) by mail5.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 20 May 2002 23:45:59 -0400 Message-ID: <005201c2007a$07b8d900$3264a8c0@jimbosath2000> From: "Jimbo" To: "Jonathan Chen" Cc: References: <001f01c20062$bc5cf980$3264a8c0@jimbosath2000> <20020521134051.A40442@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <003501c2006a$781dfdc0$3264a8c0@jimbosath2000> <20020521142151.A40576@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <004301c2006f$51800730$3264a8c0@jimbosath2000> <20020521153800.A40833@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Subject: Re: kernel won't compile Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 23:46:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 Yup, running make and make install from /usr/src/usr.bin/mkdep worked - thank you VERY much for your help. A good thing you made that suggestion, too, because after close to an hour of compilation, gcc32 error 2'ed out on me. Sigh. Is it NORMAL to have a relatively high failure rate compiling ports? Another notable example was SNMP-5.01; I had to install SNMP4 because 5.01 just kept dying with dependency issues and not telling me why... -J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Chen" To: "Jimbo" Cc: Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 11:38 PM Subject: Re: kernel won't compile > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:29:22PM -0400, Jimbo wrote: > > No - it does not. I have no idea why not, as I've certainly never removed > > ANY copy of mkdep from ANY directory - I wonder if there's a problem with > > the 4.5-RELEASE distro not installing it by default with an installation > > from CD? > > > > I'm most of the way through an installation of gcc32 from > > /usr/ports/lang/gcc32 now. I see that it's already placed a copy of mkdep > > in its work directory, so this should fix the problem, I would assume. > > > > Has anybody else ever noticed mkdep missing for some strange reason from a > > BSD installation? > > Odd. > > > Incidentally, not only was mkdep missing from /usr/bin, when I performed a > > find / -iname mkdep, it was only discovered in /usr/src/usr.bin and a couple > > of work directories for one random port or another. Most strange indeed... > > Well, you should be able to: > > # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/mkdep > # make > # make install > > and then try your kernel compile again. > -- > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "You can get farther with a kind word and a gun > than you can with a kind word alone" - Al Capone > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message