From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 31 18:45:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A78CE16A415 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:45:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE7243D92 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:44:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.8) id k9VIiAFX056179; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:44:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:44:10 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jonathan Horne Message-ID: <20061031184410.GE3839@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3961.192.168.125.134.1162319705.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3961.192.168.125.134.1162319705.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ive been trying to build a kernel all morning! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:45:40 -0000 In the last episode (Oct 31), Jonathan Horne said: > i have a 6.2-PRERELEASE machine, that i am trying to build a > 6.1-RELEASE-p10 kernel and world on. > > before i began, i did a rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/*, and then did a fresh > cvsup of RELENG_6_1. i do the same thing i always do, which would be to > cd to /usr/src, and then issue 'make -j 6 buildkernel KERNCONF=[CONFNAME] > (in this case, a conf file named REGULUS). First step: get rid of the -j6, so the build stops as soon as there's a compile error. Or, record the entire output of make and scan it top-down for the first error message. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com